Excellent Resources to Help Your Child Learn at Home

While the classroom is the primary place where your child develops the necessary skills to achieve academic success, you have the opportunity to help your child develop a love for learning at home. The goal is to create self-educators, who are committed to the process of learning over the course of a lifetime.

How can you set your child on the right path and bolster your own knowledge? Last week I wrote about educational activities that your could do with your child at home and in the community.

This week I want to give you some tools to help you engage your child in the learning process.

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Books
Whether you check them out from the library or buy them, these books are a good place to start:

1. The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
2. The Core Knowledge Foundation’s: What Your ____ Grader Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch
3. The Educated Child by William Bennett and Chester E. Finn, Jr. is a comprehensive book that reinforces the Core Knowledge Foundation’s ideas.
4. Honey For a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt or Honey for a Teen’s Heart, also  by Gladys Hunt
5. The Read-Aloud Handbook By Jim Trelease
6. The Marva Collins Way by Marva Collins
7. Values: Lighting the Candle of Excellence : A Practical Guide for the Family by Marva Collins
8. The Bible, I personally believe that this is the most important resource you could need in your home--even if you are an Atheist. This little library has shaped most of western thought and still influences non-believers and believers all over the world.

YouTube Channels:
Teens and Adults

1. TEDx Talks
2. Crash Course
3. SciShow
4. Veritasium
5. SmarterEveryDay
6. Numberphile
7. Words of the World

Kids

1. Crash Course Kids
2. It’s Okay to Be Smart
3. The Learning Station
4. Little Story Bug
5. Cool School
6. SciShow Kids