Debra Bell

• Motivating the Reluctant Learner: Part 1
  Thursday, June 13, 2019
• Cures for the Winter Blahs, Part 2
  Field trips are a great solution for a stagnating home school. Besides the obvious historic sites and museums set up for regular visitors, here are some other places located in your community to...
  Monday, January 11, 2010
• Cures for the Winter Blahs, Part 1
  The first thing I do when I feel burn-out coming on is look for some place interesting to go. I'm not by nature a homebody, and neither are my kids. But I've also learned over the years that there...
  Monday, January 4, 2010
• Raising Leaders: Part 4
  Friday, August 11, 2006
• College and Career: Preparing for the Future
  Friday, April 15, 2005
• Co-ops That Work
  Wednesday, January 7, 2004
• Learning Styles: Part 3 - The Focused Learner
  We've considered the Active Learner and the Routine Learner (see the archives). Now we turn to the Focused Learner. The focused learner will learn despite you! But he's going to exhaust you with...
  Saturday, September 27, 2003
• Learning Styles: Part 2 - The Routine Learner
  Saturday, September 27, 2003
• Learning Styles: Part 1 - The Active Learner
  How do kids learn best? That's the question I set out to answer when studying for my degree in education. But after working with kids more than twenty years, it is clear to me the question should...
  Saturday, September 27, 2003
• Getting Started (Part II): Where Are You Going?
  Working backwards is a nifty math strategy my kids have learned to use-I find it’s a pretty useful approach to life as well. So a foundational step in getting started home schooling is...
  Friday, September 5, 2003
• How to Start Your Own Home-School Sports Leagues
  Let me encourage my readers to consider throwing their efforts into growing home-school sports leagues in their region. I will not be surprised if there are as many of these in a few years as...
  Thursday, March 13, 2003
• 15 Ways to Position Your Child for College Scholarships--#2
  Here are four more important components to build into your home-school program that will result in competitive applications for college funding. More importantly, these are life-changing...
  Tuesday, February 4, 2003
• 15 Ways to Position Your Child for College Scholarships
  Given the cost of a college education today, it is never too early to make use of these tips that weigh merit scholarship funds in your child's favor.
  Monday, January 20, 2003
• Enhancing Your Teen's Relationship with Christ
  This week, my son Mike has asked to share some of the significant experiences of his high school years. I thought many of you would find his perspective encouraging. He has not always been so...
  Tuesday, December 3, 2002
• Classical Christian Education: A Growing Trend
  The classical Christian education movement is spawning schools across the country at an amazing rate. Can we apply this educational model in our homes? No one knows better than Susan Wise Bauer,...
  Tuesday, June 18, 2002
• Family Schools - The Synergy of Pooling Your Resources
  "Family school" is my term for co-ops that offer weekly, fee-based, academic classes to home schoolers. At my house, we are all involved in a family school called CHESS - an acronym for Creative...
  Monday, May 13, 2002
• Raising Compelling Communicators
  To become an effective communicator, a child must master the discipline of writing. Many of us were never taught how to write, so how can we teach our children? Deb de-mystifies the process for us....
  Wednesday, April 10, 2002
• Learning Styles: The Global Learner
  In contrast with the focused learner, the global learner has a wide breadth of interests, often finding it difficult to narrow her pursuits to a manageable number of directions.
  Wednesday, January 2, 2002