Help and Encourage those Homeschooling High School
(Thanks to our beloved Stacey Lane Clendaniel, who is both a Sister and Cousin! She is make-it-happen on the FB group and all the social media, the wisdom-sharer when we get stuck and the one who would make things explode for the teens in chemistry lab. Stacey can do anything!- Vicki)
If you follow any of our social media accounts or are a member of our Facebook group, you have probably seen us post, “How Can We Help?”
We don’t take that question lightly, it truly is our desire to aid, assist, help, and encourage families homeschooling high school.
The first definition of the word help, “make it easier for someone to do something” becomes a core value of our “why” here at 7SistersHomeschool.
If you put the word “help” into our search bar on our website you would get over a dozen pages with the word “help” in the title of our blog posts. For the math people, the website shows nine posts per page so easily we have written over 200 posts with the word “help” in the title.
We are here to Help and Encourage Those Homeschooling High School!
Another thing we take to heart about helping and encouraging is that homeschooling is NOT just academics. We are here to help homeschool all aspects of raising and guiding teens. Even our health curriculum title High School Health for the Whole Person encompasses that desire.
If you find yourself needing to take a step back from academics to “help” your teen that’s ok. Or if you and your teen are in a serious crisis, start with this podcast first, Helping Teens in Crisis Times. If you have not experienced a crisis but know a friend experiencing a crisis, we encourage you to read How to Help a Friend in a Crisis.
Let us share posts on the topic of helping teens with learning who they are.
Does your teen need help in believing in themselves? To truly be prepared for life and career, homeschool high schoolers need to believe in themselves. Or maybe they need to discover their stars? In fact, every child has a star! Homeschooling parents’ most wonderful job is becoming star finders!
We want our teens to have confidence in themselves as they prepare to become adults. Adolescence can be tough on teens’ self-esteem. However, teens need to believe in themselves enough to feel confidence in preparing for adulthood.
Knowing there are all kinds of teens we even wrote about helping shy teens build confidence. There is nothing in the world wrong with being shy. God created all kinds of personalities and each is wonderful in His sight. However, every personality has its strengths and its “opportunities for growth”.
We have 5 Steps to Help Teens Find Purpose. Homeschooling high school is the perfect place to instill the idea that we are all here on earth for a purpose.
3 Ways to Help Homeschool High Schoolers Find their Callings. There is a practical part to calling that our teens need to explore. (Note that we said explore. Understanding our callings is an unfolding process…people discover callings as they faithfully live day by day.)
Maybe your teen is experiencing an Identity Crisis? It’s not only homeschool teens who have identity crisis. Most teens have an adolescent identity crisis at some point and in some manner.
We want our teens to manage the stress of growing up. As much as we might wish it, homeschooling does not insulate our teens from stressful times. Stress is hard for anyone but especially for teens. The cool thing is that we can help our high schoolers develop stress management tools for their stressful times now.
With one of the 7Sisters being a professional counselor, we give space here to the mental health of our teens.
As homeschooling parents, we wear many hats and play multiple roles in our children’s lives. If you need to help your teen with depression or help your teen have a healthy relationship with food, we have written posts and created podcasts.
Sometime our teens struggle with the stress of current events This world is full of stressful news. The constant influx of anxiety producing, negative news can really take a toll on teens.
Homeschool parents often help teens who are being bullied at school, work to develop bully-proofing skills. If you need help with being bullied. read these posts.
Putting things off, especially things you don’t want to do, is a human thing. We all tend to do that. Sometimes for teens, because they have less experience in life, procrastination is one of the hardest things to conquer. Some teens need help handling procrastination.
Productivity skills do not come naturally to every single person, and that’s okay! Learn some neat tips for helping teens learn productivity skills – and you can pick up a thing or two along the way as well!
Often times as our teens get older they need to learn how to handle discouragement. Let’s face it, as humans, we all experience moments of discouragement. Our teens are no exception.
Many teens (and moms, too) get stymied by perfectionism. When teens feel like they must do everything perfectly, it ends up messy! Listen to this podcast to help teens who struggle with perfectionism.
It’s hard for teenagers to think of the big picture. Maybe they need to learn how to set priorities.
Overachieving teens, especially in the homeschool community, value accomplishments. So they engage in numerous academic and extracurricular endeavors. Anxiety, burnout, and panic attacks may become issues if we do not address overachievers’ need for balance. Here are some ways you can help.
While it is a normal part of development, we parents have the job of helping them grow THROUGH this time period and not stay IN this time period. We parents call this part of our job *character development*. We want our teens to think of others and learn the gift of noticing.
If you are homeschooling a strong willed teen we want to give you an extra hug. There’s not ONE right way to homeschool high school…and there’s DEFINITELY not one right way to homeschool high school with a strong willed teen. That’s okay! It will keep you on your toes…and knees (in prayer).
High school becomes the transition for teens to own their education. We can help them explore their interests.
As teens near graduation we want to help and encourage them to THINK!
We want to help teens examine their presuppositions. Teens need to explore critical thinking skills. Homeschool parents want to help teens to learn to think well and often ask what are you thinking?
While they are thinking we want to help them answer their questions about their faith. We created a FREE Apologetics curriculum to help teens strengthen their faith. We wrote about 7 Ways to Help your Teens Build a Prayer Life.
Helping Teens with decisions after high school
One of the best gifts we can give our teens is the skill of independent learning. You have probably noticed that independent learning is an important part of adulting. Want to help your teens become independent learners? One important way is to teach them to use a syllabus. Our college kids have come back to thank us for teaching them how to use a syllabus.
Homeschool parents look for ideas to help teens choose their college major. We have found that the college search is one of their big stressors. Teens and their parents sometimes don’t know where to start. Here are some tips on how to help homeschool teens start the college search.
For others they want to equip their non-college bound teen to find success.
No matter which direction your teen heads, all teens needs need help preparing for their first job interview!
Of course we haven’t forgotten about the helping with the academics….part 2 coming soon.
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