About this episode

Christy-Faith discusses strategies for homeschooling children who struggle to sit still and how movement can enhance learning.

You've said "sit down, please" about twenty thousand times this week — and it's starting to feel personal. It isn't. Homeschool expert Christy-Faith unpacks what's actually happening in your child's brain, why the wiggling may be how the learning gets in, and the small shifts that make the morning stop being a fight. 🎁 Free Resource: 20 Questions to Kickstart Your Deschooling Adventure Twenty honest questions that help you spot the school-shaped rules you're still carrying — so you can put them down, one at a time. 👉 Free Download In this episode, you'll learn: The attention-span rule of thumb every homeschool mom should know — a few minutes per year of age on a grown-up-chosen task Why a 45-minute lesson is quietly asking your six-year-old to hold on three times longer than they can The three expectations strangling your homeschool mornings — and permission to put all three down What 54 studies and nearly 30,000 kids revealed about movement and learning How to shorten and split lessons without falling behind Why doing the hard subjects first changes the whole back half of your day How to rescue your read-alouds — a still body was never the point Loop scheduling and trimming…

People in this episode

Host: Christy-Faith

Topics covered

• homeschooling
• child development
• attention span
• learning styles
• parenting strategies
• educational resources

Keywords

• homeschool
• attention span
• learning
• parenting
• education
• movement
• read-alouds
• deschooling

Sponsors

BJU Press Homeschool

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