Read this list of gift suggestions for your teens!
We used a variety of homeschool resources when we were looking for gift ideas. Here are some of our FAVORITE suggestions!
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Games
Games are a BIG in our family, especially at Christmas. Our family tradition is to buy a new board game each year. Christmas Day, we all play together! In fact, the day after Christmas, when I go out shopping sales with my mother, the boys will still be playing board games with their father! Here are some of our absolute favorites! Our Favorite Teaching Company Lectures
Beyond games, remember to feed their passion! Sheet music, musical instruments, books in their interest area. My son Kevin loves history, especially military history. One year for Christmas we gave him the Teaching Company course on Russian History. He STILL won't let me sell it! He loved it, listened to it for fun, learned a lot - and ultimately I put it on his high school transcript. Gifts that Will Help you Cope
Finally, parents may welcome gifts that help them cope with the demands of homeschooling. Here are some books that I used during the years of homeschooling. Let's just call these my Homeschool Survival Tips!The Gifts that Started it All!
It can be hard to identify the one gift that reveals the passion and purpose in your childrens' lives. We were lucky enough to be able to pin-point the exact moment that God "lit the fire" in both of our kids. It was these two gifts that struck the match! Gifts for the Homebased Business
If your family has a home-based business, I highly recommend Steve Beck's course called "8 Weeks to Profits." His course has really helped us with the technical aspects of buying, selling, serving, and running our home based business.
Finally, Gifts to help you Homeschool High School!
Beyond gifts that are educational and gifts that are fun, consider giving gifts to your spouse! Christmas is a great time to give the gift of Parent Education Courses.
This is the same material I bring to your home in my three-hour one-on-one "Preparing to Homeschool High School Crash Course," now indexed and customized for ease of use. There is almost 4 hours of instructional material covering all aspects of homeschooling high school.
Topics include:
- Planning high school courses
- Planning lessons
- Assigning grades and determining credit
- Keeping great records
- Navigating the standard high school tests
- Socialization and specialization
- Planning to succeed in college
Learn an expert's secrets for positioning your student to get HUGE merit based scholarships. Lee Binz was able to get both of her children four-year full-tuition scholarships to their first choice University and now she brings those secrets to you in a 50 minute DVD!
Topics include:
- Planning a rigorous curriculum
- Preparing for the SAT and ACT
- Private scholarships
- How to REALLY impress the colleges
- Saving money by homeschooling college
Discover how to find "The Love of your Life", that is, the college or university that will love your students as much as you do! In this 50 minute DVD, recorded live at the 2007 Pacific Northwest Homeschool College Fair, Lee Binz shares with a standing room only crowd what to look for in a college and how to ensure a "love match" between them and your student. Note: Because this is a "live" presentation, there are a few distractions in the beginning of the session as people get settled into their seats. These do not interfere at all with the message. Topics include:
- How to attend a college fair
- Searching for colleges
- How to make your college visits count
- Admission essay strategies
In my work helping homeschool families, I have frequently been asked for a copy of my children's Comprehensive Record. In books currently on the market, you might find one or two course descriptions from an individual parent. What you'll never see is one child's records from beginning to end, exactly as they were submitted to a college. That's what this Homeschool Comprehensive Record is all about.
Other than removing names, this is exactly the same document in the same format that I submitted to colleges when my son applied.
My children were admitted to all of the colleges where they applied, and were given great scholarships from each college, including four-year, full-tuition scholarships from their first choice university.
Parents with gifted children face unique stresses in their homeschool. It's not as easy as it sounds to educate brilliant children! I know that you have what it takes to succeed in this challenge. You have everything you need to get the job done because you are LOVE-givers of your children, and it's the love the makes the difference.
The BEST NEWS is that when you learn about your gifted children, it can help you homeschool all of your children! The general strategies for gifted education are the same for everyone else; teach every subject at their level all the time, and balance their social and academic needs. In this audio course, you will learn specific strategies that you can use with ALL of your children, and you will hear it from a mother who truly understands the unique challenges of homeschooling gifted children.
Topics include:
- Introduction to Giftedness
- What Gifted Kids are Like
- Acceleration
- Compacting
- Enrichment
- Liberal Arts
- Specialization
- Challenging, Not Overwhelming
- Do the Next Thing
- Use What Works
- Be Prepared
- No Conveyor Belts
- Conclusion
Understanding the common high school tests can save you real money right now - AND that knowledge can save thousands of dollars on college. There is over an hour of instructional material here that compares and contrasts all of major high school tests, including the SAT and ACT. Included are general strategies and study tips they used to help their children each raise their SAT scores by nearly 200 points per section. You will also learn how Lee's family homeschooled one year of college using CLEP exams.
Lee has spoken to many support groups on high school testing, and she would love to share this information with you! Listen while you are driving, and save money on college!
Topics include:
- SAT
- ACT
- PSAT/NMSQT
- PLAN
- SAT II Subject Tests
- AP, and
- CLEP
Homeschooling high school can be a very scary idea, but Lee Binz's specialty is removing fear and empowering parents to succeed! Her book, The Easy Truth About Homeschool Transcripts, tackles one of the most frightening aspects of homeschooling high school by revealing the secrets of creating winning transcripts for homeschoolers. Transcripts that will WOW the colleges!
And Lee knows something about making colleges say WOW!
When her two boys graduated from homeschool high school, they were accepted and got great scholarships at every college they applied to. Amazingly, both of her boys received 4-year full tuition scholarships to their first choice university, saving her family over $184,000!!!
How did she do it? Well, part of it was the amazing transcripts and records Lee prepared. In fact, Bryan Jones, Associate Director of Admissions at Seattle Pacific University wrote to say: "Your transcripts and records were the best organized and documented I have seen."
In her e-book "The Easy Truth About Homeschool Transcripts," Lee tells you exactly how she did it. You'll learn:
And Lee knows something about making colleges say WOW!
When her two boys graduated from homeschool high school, they were accepted and got great scholarships at every college they applied to. Amazingly, both of her boys received 4-year full tuition scholarships to their first choice university, saving her family over $184,000!!!
How did she do it? Well, part of it was the amazing transcripts and records Lee prepared. In fact, Bryan Jones, Associate Director of Admissions at Seattle Pacific University wrote to say: "Your transcripts and records were the best organized and documented I have seen."
In her e-book "The Easy Truth About Homeschool Transcripts," Lee tells you exactly how she did it. You'll learn:
- What colleges really want from homeschool applicants.
- How to assign grades and award credits in a way colleges will respect and believe.
- How to feel comfortable and confident in your ability to impress the colleges.
- What to include on a homeschool transcript,
- How to name your classes.
Lee also addresses how to plan a college prep education, so that your student is well prepared whether they go to college or not. She teaches you how to capture "delight directed learning," that is, learning that is less structured and perhaps without formal curriculum. If you've ever wondered how to capture your students passionate interest in an "unusual" subject, this is definitely the book for you.
Lee's easy, conversational style will help you master the steps necessary to translate 4 years of homeschooling into a high school transcript that will perfectly capture your homeschool and impress the colleges.
Lee also discusses the strategy she used to help her children earn college credit while in high school, and then, how to reflect that credit onto their high school transcript. Never lost is the focus that homeschooling high school is about more than just grades and credits. It is about building adults with knowledge, wisdom and character.Creating great transcripts does not require expensive software, co-ops or accreditation agencies. Neither do you need to use Alt-Ed or Certified Teachers.
This amazing, one-of-a-kind product will encourage and empower you as you homeschool your children through high school.
"Your transcripts and records were
the best organized and documented I have seen"
- Bryan Jones, Associate Director of Admissions,
Seattle Pacific University
the best organized and documented I have seen"
- Bryan Jones, Associate Director of Admissions,
Seattle Pacific University
