Imagine you or your child authoring a popular 2 or 3-D game and making tons of cash in the process? Well it could happen and it’s not as hard as you think, thanks to today’s programming software for kids and adults alike. http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/17/eighth-grader-knocks-free-angry-birds-out-of-the-top-spot-on-the-app-store/ This is an article about an 8th grader whose easily authored game knocked out Angry Birds, the [...]
My 8 and 11 year old homeschoolers are now published authors.
TENNESSEE The Tea Party of Tennessee wants to remove incidents of slavery and genocide from American textbooks for fear they would besmirch the image of the Founding Fathers: The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. As a result, the Tea Party organizations argue, there should be “no portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or [...]
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE BRAIN TEASER WORKSHEET Brain teasers are a great way to increase your child’s aptitude. Learning is much more than completing assignments that lack a challenging aspect or that require no thought. If your child is completing an assignment very quickly this is a sign that they need to go to the next level. It [...]
‘Potential doesn’t have a limit. It’s like a rainbow. You can constantly keep chasing it, and you will never get to it.’
The children sat placidly in their chairs, elbows on the table, eyes forward. One munched on a clementine. A group of younger children, ages 3 to 5, colored quietly in the back. “We lost a woman who was very important to us,” announced Afrika Porter-Ollarvia. “Dr. Margaret Burroughs.” What do the students know, she asked, about Burroughs? Several hands shot [...]
Why are black boys doing so terribly in the classroom? What are you personally doing to ensure that your son/nephew doesn’t become a harrowing statistic?
“Martin Luther King Jr. is just a stinking black man“.
Most people are inclined to believe that highly intelligent children are ‘born smart’. Although there is some truth to that assumption, there is one very important variable parents can control that will significantly influence that outcome: the types of foods we feed our children.
