Teaching in Your Tiara Quotes

“The relationship you have with your children is the rock upon which you will build their education. Not enjoying spending time at home with the children is one of the most common reasons why parents quit homeschooling.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“The fact is, you've been teaching your children from the very beginning of their lives. You've got this! You already know more about teaching than you think you do. You're not doing something revolutionary here; you're just adding academics to the long list of things that your children are already learning from you.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara: A Homeschooling Book for the rest of Us

“So, I have to ask: why are you letting other people define what normal is for your child? Why are you letting people you don't trust to educate them dictate what limits they should live within?”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara: A Homeschooling Book for the rest of Us

“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”       –T.S. Eliot”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“Fill out whatever forms and provide whatever information is legally required of you. You don’t have to add a bunch of stuff to it to justify what you are doing or the choices you have made. Just the facts, ma’am!”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“Children naturally love to learn. It’s schooling they hate. Have you heard the old saying “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life?” It’s the same thing with teaching your children. If you find something that touches his mind, you won’t have to work so hard to get him to do it. Your children will be honest with you about how it’s going. Don’t mistake the wrong curriculum for disobedience. If everyone is miserable, change it.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“Your children need regular exposure to other children. They do not need to be exclusively around kids their own age, and I would even caution you against that. There’s something a little unnatural about the tendency of school children to hang out only with people their own age. When they grow up they won’t go find the 23-year-old company where all the 23-year- olds are and work there until age 24.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of use in everyday life.          – Petronius (a.d. 66)”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“If you are fortunate enough to have a preschooler who is still napping in the afternoons, this is the perfect time for schoolwork.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“Homeschooling with a baby requires adaptability and a sense of humor.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“You will save yourself a lot of time if the littlest one is in a confined area that has been baby-proofed and is well equipped with non-electronic toys. (This is really so important as the tinny sounds of electronic noise will distract even the most dedicated student, so forget an 8-year-old boy being able to work with all that racket.)”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“The biggest determining factors for academic success seem to be consistency – getting up and working every day, and the enthusiasm of the teacher for both the subjects and her pupils.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“The purpose of a lesson plan is for organization. Mine is my back-up brain written down to make sure that I don’t miss anything, and so that I remember to do the fun things like art projects and not just the boring stuff.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“As homeschoolers, our goal shouldn’t be to cram as many facts into their heads as they can possibly remember; it should be to teach them to go looking for information, to make sense of the facts they find, and always seek to know more.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“The thing about patience is that it’s like a muscle. The more you exercise it the stronger it gets.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“(For kindergarten and 1st grade, the general rule is 2-3 hours per day with an increase of half an hour per grade level.)”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“The relationship you have with your children is the rock upon which you will build their education.”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“for them to learn? It has to begin somewhere, and prayer”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara

“         I know that offering everything”
― Rebecca Frech, Teaching in Your Tiara