Homeschooling Boys - Gaining Maximum Success from Minimum Cooperation

Product Description

What do you do when life gives you boys to raise? In Tina Razzell€s case the answer is homeschool them. In her fifteen years as a homeschool mom she€s discovered that life with boys is not easy, always creative and often unpredictable. She shares in this book her trials and successes homeschooling her four children, three of them male.

At first she covers living with boys and the struggle between boys wanting to be independent and moms wanting to shelter them.

The second half of the book is about the specific ways she teaches boys who won€t sit still and those who struggle to write, with a chapter dedicated to teaching your lefty to write.

If you are starting to homeschool one or more boys, then this book will be a valuable help to your journey. If you have been homeschooling for a while you might relate to some of the stories.



Contents

1. It€s a Boy!

Part 1 €“ Raising Boys

2. Living with Boys

3. Boys want to be Independent

4. Temper Tantrums

5. Children are Creative

6. Guns and Other Weapons

Part 2 €“ Educating Boys

7. Curricula

8. Boys in School

9. Learning Disabilities

10. Learning to Write

11. Teaching a Lefty to Write

And Finally€¦

12. Teenage Boys Becoming Men





About the Author

Tina Razzell is a happily married mom with three boys and a girl. Originally from England, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She€s been homeschooling for what seems like forever, and vaguely remembers a life before kids.
It didn€t take her long to realize that homeschooling three boys is not an easy task to undertake. Although she€s been writing about homeschooling for a while, this is her first book.