356. Parenting Strategies or Teaching Tactics

What if the missing ingredient in your homeschool isn’t a better curriculum, but a bigger toolkit for teaching?
When kids resist a lesson, it’s easy to reach for familiar parenting strategies: consequences, bargaining, reminders, and demands for cooperation. But learning asks something different of us. We need teaching tactics that spark curiosity, invite collaboration, leave room for contemplation, and celebrate real growth.
We explore playful, practical ways to make math, history, writing, and other subjects more meaningful, while helping our kids develop genuine ownership of what they learn.
Tune in and discover how to trade “Come on, you guys!” for richer learning experiences.
Resources:
Registration is open now for Middle School Writing: Nonfiction Projects and many other Brave Writer classes!
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Start a free trial of CTCmath.com to try the math program that’s sure to grab and keep your child’s attention
Find Jim Weiss’s Greek Myths CD along with our favorite readalouds and nonfiction in the Brave Writer Book Shop
Visit Julie’s Substack to find her special podcast for kids (and a lot more!)
Purchase Julie’s new book, Help! My Kid Hates Writing
Melissa’s books make great readalouds—and there are Darts for The Prairie Thief and The Nerviest Girl in the World.
Find community at the Brave Learner Home
Learn more about the Brave Writer Literature & Mechanics programs
Subscribe to Julie’s Substack newsletters, Brave Learning with Julie Bogart and Julie Off Topic, and Melissa’s Catalog of Enthusiasms
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