Moving Forward with the Bicycle Approach to Homeschooling

Are you struggling to train children to work, keep a home, teach several children of different stages of development, nurture younger children and keep your sanity?

Don't give up!  Keep pedaling and you will keep moving forward!

Many new to homeschool look for a curriculum as a vehicle to move their children towards being educated. Perhaps the vehicle they need is not just a curriculum, but taking other things into account that impact children's character, work ethic, brain development, core body balance, executive function, socialization and more.

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Here are four more ways to inspire love of learning--

4. Seek Ye Out of the Best Books!
"Seek ye out of the best books, words of wisdom..." Best books are great, inspiring, and living. "We live in a world where knowledge is increasing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience. If you should stop now, you will only stunt you intellectual and spiritual growth. Keep everlastingly at it. Read. Read. Read. Read the word of God in sacred books of scripture. Read from the great literature of the ages. Read what is being said in our day and time and will be said in the future.” Gordon B. Hinckley - Commencement Address, Brigham Young University 27 April 1995.

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Some helpful insights in developing and preserving the love of learning:
1. Be thou an Example! 
Do you love learning?  If not, why not? Being an example means at first, your focus is on you getting a superb education, and not focusing on them jumping through schooling hoops. Once you are established on your way, it is much easier to invite them to join you. Before you get going though, make sure you establish the habit and love for studying your central core canon.  A canon is your standard that everything is measured against. For me it is the scriptures and words of the living prophets. Time to sup it daily, to liken them to one's self, and to use it to discern good from evil; right from wrong; truth and error. Then apply it in one's own life and teach it to one's children. If one not living what they teach, it may become a stumbling block for their children. There will come a time as they mature where they have the skills and have learned to manage their wills, where they will be ready to commit to their own education. 

Quote of the Day- March 2nd

“Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is the way it’s supposed to work. This is God’s plan: father and mother, grandfather and grandmother teaching their children; children learning from them and then becoming a more righteous generation through their own personal experiences and opportunities. Learning the lessons of the past allows you to build personal testimony on a solid bedrock of obedience, faith, and the witness of the Spirit.” -M. Russell Ballard