Posts Tagged ‘homeschooling’

Update: October 3, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Finally! A few high schools have begun truly preparing kids for the 21st century, whether it involves work prep or college courses during high school.

More good news: manufacturing is slowly returning to the U.S.

Meanwhile, China is stuck with too many unsold goods, perhaps because we’re seeing such poor quality in today’s products?

High-quality online classes are proliferating at both the high school and college level.

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

School dress codes are out of control: kindergartener forced to change t-shirt because it displayed the wrong team.

You Can Say That Again!

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids. (Dolly Parton)

So, how are you preparing your children to thrive in the 21st century? Check out the links to the left for articles and information that will help you.

See you soon,

Barbara Frank
www.thrivinginthe21stcentury.com

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Weekly Update: May 23, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

Managers who want promotions are taking on multiple foreign assignments (which is one reason why our kids need to learn foreign languages!)

H-P plans to cut 30,000 jobs, though none of them are in China…

…meanwhile, Chinese kids take their studies to an extreme.

Can young adults give up tech for an hour a day?

Here’s a passionate argument for keeping your children out of school.

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

School punished by U.S. government with a $15,000 fine (thus cutting fine arts programs) for accidentally selling soda pop during lunch hour.

You Can Say That Again!

You don’t hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. (Stephen Ambrose)

So, how are you preparing your children to thrive in the 21st century? Check out the links to the left for articles and information that will help you.

See you next Wednesday,

Barbara Frank
www.thrivinginthe21stcentury.com

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Weekly Update: February 22, 2012

News and Info for 21st Century Parents

It’s important to raise tech-savvy kids, but they also need to know right from wrong or they’ll put their skills to the wrong use.

As I noted in Thriving in the 21st Century, there are still a few career fields where pay is actually going up…

…but according to the U.S. Census Bureau, household income continues to drop, as does the number of people with full-time employment.

Just because a college or grad school claims to have grads with high employment rates doesn’t make it so.

What Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was a homeschooling dad?

What Homeschooled Kids are Missing Out On

Homeschooled 12-year-old girls don’t have to worry about being arrested for wearing perfume.

You Can Say That Again!

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. (Laurence J. Peter)

So, how are you preparing your children to thrive in the 21st century? Check out the links to the left for articles and information that will help you.

See you next Wednesday,

Barbara Frank

www.thrivinginthe21stcentury.com

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