Almighty Dad | A stay at home dad blog

    

You could go to the bookstore and buy a collection of addition and subtraction worksheets.  Or you could visit DadsWorksheets.com and have access to 4,800 worksheets which cover every piece of basic math up to pre-algebra that you could ever want or need.  I discovered DadsWorksheets a year ago during my quest for the best dad blogs.  Since then I’ve been using his worksheets every[…]

    

Sometimes learning math can be yummy.  Yesterday we gave the boys a lesson in probability by using peanut M&M’s.  The motivation was pretty simple, answer correctly, get an M&M.  Here’s how it works if anybody is interested in trying it with their kids:     

      

Step 1. Grab a handful of M&M’s and place them on the table in a[…]

   

Giant Flashing (except I don’t know how to make it flash) Disclaimer: I am a supporter of homeschooling rights.  I homeschool my kids and I want the freedom to teach them my own way.  I understand the desire for parents to teach the curriculum of their choice.  This is an argument for science, not against religion.      

    

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Video Games have made my kid a better reader. Ever since my boy got hooked on Super Paper Mario (Wii) and Paper Mario (GameCube) he’s been reading more fluidly and confidently.  How can this be?  Well, I never really noticed before, but Paper Mario and Super Paper Mario are heavily dialog centered games that rely on characters telling stories to guide Mario to his next clue.  The great[…]

   

    

A year ago, before I started this blog, I didn’t know the difference between Steel Cut and Rolled Oats.  I didn’t know the truth about High Fructose Corn Syrup or that frozen vegetables are actually healthier than other supermarket veggies.  In fact, there are very few articles apart from my tea and fitness articles for which I didn’t have to do research.  I ask myself every day what it is parents[…]

 

 

Childhood obesity is clearly a problem.  We don’t need statistics to know there are a bunch of fat kids waddling around these days.  Just open your eyes.  But, statistics do help us to isolate the problem and think of solutions.  The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) came out with a report basedon statistics from 2007-08 data reported by 37 states. It proposes to solve childhood (or at least[…]

           

           

Homeschooling my kids is one of the great pleasures I have in life.  I get to be responsible for their mental growth and to shape them into productive citizens.  My job description is this: Increase my kids’ chances in life through quality education and direction.  It’s my responsibility to teach them everything they need to know to a point where they can take over for themselves, to the point where they become[…]

 

   

Over the course of the last two years I have gone through several Math programs for my boys.  Each one has been, in some way, flawed.  Hooked on Math (from the Hooked on Phonics people) is good, but[…]

 

A huge advantage that homeschoolers have over their public school peers is the relative lack of vacation time.  We don’t stop learning during summer, spring break or most other holidays.  The result is that we don’t slip backwards in our learning and we don’t spend time catching up to where we left off.  I have[…]

I‘ve written several times already about Hooked on Phonics (Anobydy Can Do It With Hooked on Phonics!, Hooked on Phonics Products, Reading Progress: 5 Year Old Alan).  It happens that both my boys have officially graduated beyond the Kindergarten, 1st grade,[…]