Need to Light a Fire Under Your Unmotivated Teen? Learn Expert Secrets for Unlocking the Potential of your Homeschool Student! It can happen overnight. One day your child is pleasant, cooperative, and enthusiastic about learning; the next day, they aren't. This can happen with girls or boys; sometimes it happens at a certain age. Don't feel as if you've done something wrong, because it's common. Let Lee Binz, The HomeScholar, show you proven strategies for transforming your teen from a slug-slow underachiever to an inspired go-getter. In this book, Lee has teamed with Andrew Pudewa Director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing to help you successfully recognize, diagnose and solve this most common of all teenage issues. In this book, you will learn: What true motivation looks like and how to recognize it when it is there. How to recognize the lack of motivation or whether you are facing an entirely different (and potentially more serious) issue. How to identify the root causes and whether they are internal (e.g., physical or emotional) or external (e.g., technology-related or academic). The three "laws of motivation" and how to apply them in your homeschool. Tips and tweaks you can make to your homeschool to turn the tide and inspire your kids to take ownership of their education and life. Answers to common homeschooler questions on motivation and learning. Learning these strategies can breathe life and peace into a highly-charged, emotional time between parents and teens. You will feel a renewed sense of hope once you have a clear understanding of what is happening inside your teen. Here's Why You Need This Book: If you are struggling with how to deal with a sudden onslaught of teenage ennui, How to Motivate Homeschool teens will give you a new game-plan to change your current homeschool dynamic. "How to Motivate Homeschool Teens" is part of The HomeScholar's Coffee Break Book series. Designed especially for parents who don't want to spend hours and hours reading a 400-page book on homeschooling high school, each book combines Lee's practical and friendly approach with detailed, but easy-to-digest information, perfect to read over a cup of coffee at your favorite coffee shop! Never overwhelming, always accessible and manageable, each book in the series will give parents the tools they need to tackle the tasks of homeschooling high school, one warm sip at a time. Who is Lee Binz and Why Should You Listen to Her? Lee Binz, The HomeScholar, understands what it takes to graduate homeschool students who are fully prepared for college and for life. Lee's practical advice and organized presentations have helped thousands of homeschool parents muster the courage to complete their homeschooling journey. She is both reassuring and empowering, and will give you the knowledge you need to successfully graduate your high school student, and have confidence that they are ready to take on the world. A firm believer that homeschooling provides the best possible learning environment, and that parents are capable of providing a superior education for their children, Lee's mission is to encourage and equip parents to homeschool through high school. Scroll up and grab a copy today.

The teenage years are a mixture of wonderful and maddening. And, while we all have different parenting methods, we all want to know how to motivate teenagers to do and give their best. Let's face it. There is no one size fits all recipe for how to motivate teens. What works for one will be a complete bomb for another. And that fact is that some days we feel like we are dragging them to the table by their hair while other days they surprise us with a surge of energy that means we are just getting started and they are finished with everything for the day. Ready to find out how to motivate teens to get the best out of them without losing your mind or going grey? In this book, you will learn: - How to motivate a child and how to recognize it when it's done right. - How to recognize the lack of homeschool motivation or whether you are facing an entirely different (and potentially more serious) issue. - Ways to identify the root causes of unmotivated teens and whether they are internal (e.g., physical or emotional) or external (e.g., technology-related or academic). - The three "laws of motivating teenagers" and how to apply them in your homeschool. - Tips and tweaks you can make to your homeschool to turn the tide and motivate teens to take ownership of their education and life. - Answers to common homeschooler questions on how to motivate kids.

Adding honor as a factor in raising kids …and parent-child relationships. Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller offer a thorough program for establishing honor as a basis of family life — not just children honoring parents, but parents respecting children and children honoring each other. Even if honor seems a long way off in your household, you will find practical suggestions here to bring that goal a little closer — suggestions for kids of all ages. Honor is the biblical value that will bring about good behavior. It’s more than just changing what kids do; it’s changing the deeper issues of the heart that triggered the behavior.

A working mother of six, who has homeschooled her own children for years, shows how any family can do it, with customized plans for every schedule, lifestyle, and educational goal. More people are looking into homeschooling as an alternative to traditional in-person education, but many parents fear they won’t be able to juggle it on top of their own jobs and obligations. How can you create a lesson plan, manage a curriculum, and teach, all while keeping up with your own career? Luckily, Linsey Knerl is here to help. As a mother of six and freelance journalist whose own children learn at home, she’s committed to making homeschool work for every family who wants it. In Homeschool Hacks, she shares stories of homeschooling families with different backgrounds and motivations, dispelling the myth that it’s only for religious folks or stay-at-home parents. And she walks you through a complete plan for your child’s learning, including: -Sample schedules to create a flexible framework for your own classroom -Curriculum assessments to discern which program will best fit their needs and their schedules -Tips for finding—and navigating—your local the homeschool community -Online resources to continue your journey through graduation Whether you are considering homeschooling for the long term, the short term, or the first time, this book has everything you need to become your kids’ best teacher ever.

What readers are saying about Save Your Sanity: I started reading this with a mind full of questions and heart full of worries about homeschooling high school. It's rare to find a book that answers all of your questions on a topic, but Ann has done it with such warmth and candor! If you would like practical advice from a veteran homeschooler that will put your mind at ease and inspire you about the possibilities of homeschooling high school, this is for you! --Tina H. I've just finished this book, and I have a list of moms I'd like to recommend it to. Ann makes some of the biggest lessons of both parenting teens and homeschooling high school so easy to digest and tackle. A homerun. --Beth Z. With humor and great insight, Ann shares thoughts gathered over her many years of homeschooling, and I am so thankful. This book is a gift. As helpful as all the practical tips are regarding topics such as AP classes and dual enrollment, I found that some of the most important thoughts come near the end as Ann reminds us to SEE our children for who they are and encourages us to know them and love them well. --Jocelyn W. In this book, Ann shares from her experience homeschooling 20+ years to help homeschool moms manage their expectations about the high school years. She distills the journey down to make it manageable yet effective to accomplish everything your teen needs. There is a little bit of everything in this book; all of it will help you be successful as you homeschool your teen. Ann believes that EVERY mom can CONFIDENTLY, COMPETENTLY--and even CONTENTEDLY--provide the COMPLETE high school education that her teen needs. This book will help guide you along the way. Table of Contents: What You Don't Need to Do,/li> What You DO Need to Do What It Is Wise To Do Know Your WHY College Considerations Independent Learning Socialization for Teens Talking with Teens

Families with boys often find the world reacts to them in mock horror. Even though parents love their sons, privately they admit that boys can be a handful to raise--they are boisterous, competitive, reckless, distractable. The challenge of wills between parent and son starts early, and the quest to civilize young bulls may seem hopeless some days. Yet believers know that God has given them children as a gift of heaven, specially chosen for their particular families and marked as a blessing. If that's so, why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when it's all we can do to make it through another day? Isn't there a better way? Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys shows the answer is emphatically yes. Written by the parents of six boys, Raising Real Men provides hope and encouragement to families with sons. Starting from the premise that God made boys to become men, Hal and Melanie Young offer Biblical principles and tested, practical ideas for training the manly virtues that can drive parents and teachers up the wall. This is a practical guide to equipping the hearts and minds of boys without breaking or losing your own. "...earthy, realistic, humorous, and scriptural ..." -- Douglas Wilson, author, Future Men "This is just what the doctor ordered for parents who want to raise capable Christian men of character." -- John Rosemond, author, Parenting By The Book