Ginny's Gems: 10 Essentials for Teaching Your Preschooler at Home

by Ginny Seuffert

Study after study shows that homeschooled children receive an all-around better education. The one-on-one relationship between the starter student and the teaching parent leads to astonishing academic progress. In this little book with big advice you will Essential Toddler Do’s and Don’ts, How to Stimulate Your Child’s Unlimited Potential, Looking Ahead to Kindergarten and Beyond, and How to Overcome Objections from Friends and Family. Ginny affirms with humor and good sense that homeschooled children have teachers who love them more than anything in the world. Her practical counsel will help your homeschooled children forge strong ties with parents, siblings, and other family members. After all, what could be better then to learn life skills at mom’s knees! Ginny’s Teaching Your Preschool Child at Home is based on Ginny’s experience as a wife of over forty years, a mother of twelve children, and a grandmother of sixteen. Most of all, this book is based on her more than twenty years of experience as a Catholic homeschooling mother.

Genres: Parenting, Education

60 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Camilo Spinel]

Great advice from a Catholic mom

Ginny’s book was a fun read, she has a great sense of humor and down to earth advice. I would definitely recommend this book to any homeschooling mom.

[Joel Everett]

Read this with my wife; good basic overview of homeschooling and material to focus on during the preschool and toddler years.

[Kathleen Kirchner]

Basic

[Karishma]

As much a manual for Catholic parenting as for homeschooling (and I'm not sure there's a huge difference between the two at the preschool level.)

Very useful for knowing which things to worry about and which ones are irrelevant.

The last section is mostly a plug for the Seton curriculum, but they are the big name in Catholic homeschooling, so I'm sure most people reading this book already have at least an initial impression of them already, so I didn't think that was too terrible.

But it's a quick read, and very inspirational coming from someone who homeschooled her 12 kids (yes, really!), and is now helping homeschool her grand-kids.