When It’s Time for a Change: What Are the Clues?

How do you know when it’s time to get new shoes for your children? When they complain that their feet hurt when they wear their shoes. How about new clothes? How do you know when it’s time to replace the old ones? When their clothes just don’t fit anymore—sleeves too short, shirts not long enough. How about replacing their bikes? When their knees hit the handlebar and their legs are just too long.

In other words, when something doesn't fit or they outgrow it, you replace it. You know when its time for a change by taking note of the visual or audible cues. You don’t make them wear shoes that don’t fit—you change them, without giving it another thought.

Curriculum should be treated the same way, but so often we stay the course simply because we've made the investment and it is easier than trying something different. This is the time of year that so many people have approached me with the same question, asking “When is it a good time to change the way we homeschool? The kids hate what we are doing, and so do I.”

Why don’t they like it?

It’s boring.

There are too many papers to grade.

Kids hate the books.

Moms hate the daily struggles and battles.

Don’t kill the joy of learning for these young minds. If you are getting clues that it is time to make a change, pray about the possibilities. Ask questions. Try a unit study. Photography? Cartooning? Pizza? Just one. Textbooks and workbooks and naysayers will always be there.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts

and still be entirely uneducated.

—Alec Bourne

Go take a peek over at our Specials page to see today’s 12 Days of Christmas specials. We have made the prices very low to make change affordable and within reach. Go ahead! And then come back and let me know what scares you most about change. What are YOUR questions? I’m here to help!

Blessings,

Amanda B.

On the First Day of Christmas...

Merry Christmas!

As a child, I lived in a part of the country where people observed and talked about the 12 Days of Christmas. From Christmas Day to what was locally called “Little Christmas” (Epiphany), people celebrated different aspects of His nativity each day. It was a wonderful tradition to watch unfold each year, and we still observe it here at the Bennett house!

Today I am thrilled to announce our third annual 12 Days of Christmas celebration and hope that it helps you plan for the coming year, while enjoying BIG savings. Each day, new special offers will be waiting at UnitStudy.com, only valid for that day.

Today we’re going to kick off the celebration with TWO exciting announcements!

1.  The Easter UnitStudy is only $3 today--HUGE savings over the regular price of $10.95. PLUS we’ve got four MORE titles on sale today too!  Check out the rest of today’s specials.

2.  Our next Facebook Co-op will be using the Easter Unit Study, the natural follow-up to the fantastic Christmas Facebook co-op that we just finished, and is scheduled to begin March 4, 2013.

So go ahead and pick up the Easter Unit Study at today’s low price (and check back EVERY day for NEW sale items through January 6), and plan on joining us for the next Facebook learning adventure!

Blessings,

Amanda B.

 

P.S.  Don’t forget to sign up for the iPad Mini giveaway, and tell your friends! The iPad Mini will be a great tool to help your family get the most out of their USAB studies at home and on the go!