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Unraveling the Importance of Drawing and Painting in Child Development
Child Development | Raising Confident Kids

How To Teach Colors To A 2 Year Old

What Are Critical Thinking Skills? Here’s How to Help Your Kids Develop Them
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Project-Based Learning: What Parents Need to know
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Best Experience Gifts for Kids (Instead of Toys!)
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Best Experience Gifts for Kids (Instead of Toys!)

Montessori Parenting: Benefits, Pros & Cons
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Montessori Parenting: Benefits, Pros & Cons

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Mud play for kids: Yes, it’s worth the mess.

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8 Best Subscription Boxes for Kids

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thealannagallo

📖 Former teacher (M.Ed.)
🧠 Raising curious, uninfluenceable kids
🚫 Rethinking play, screens & school

This is just our why. And we’re not apologizing fo This is just our why. And we’re not apologizing for it.Follow @thealannagallo if this feels aligned.
We will be over here reading banned books, fightin We will be over here reading banned books, fighting for social justice, having high academic standards, loving on our immigrant friends and keeping our kids far away from social media.If this is your homeschool vibe let’s be friends ✌🏻Secular homeschooling | academic homeschooling | breaking homeschool stereotypes
Let me be honest: this isn’t a popular approach. Let me be honest: this isn’t a popular approach.Most people around us are raising kids to respect authority, follow the rules, and not ask too many questions. And I get it. It’s easier. It’s comfortable. It’s what we were all taught to do too.But I kept coming back to the same thought: if I never teach my kids to question the world around them, how will they ever know when something is worth questioning?So we do it differently. We have debates at the dinner table. We welcome “but WHY though?” We sit with uncomfortable conversations instead of shutting them down.It doesn’t make parenting easier. It makes it more honest.Follow @thealannagallo if you’re raising kids who think for themselves too.
Not everyone is going to be comfortable with this Not everyone is going to be comfortable with this one. And that’s kind of the point.If you’re raising kids who question, wonder, and think for themselves: you’re in the right place.Follow @thealannagallo for more.
I get it. Homeschooling feels scary.What if I’m I get it. Homeschooling feels scary.What if I’m not qualified? What if they fall behind? What if I ruin them?Those are real fears. I had every single one of them.But somewhere along the way I started questioning the fears I WASN’T having. The ones I’d just… accepted as normal.I wasn’t afraid of my kid staring at a school-issued screen for six hours. I wasn’t afraid of a curriculum built around standardized tests instead of actual curiosity. I wasn’t afraid of recess being treated like a privilege instead of a necessity.I had just stopped questioning those things because everyone else had too.This isn’t about convincing you to homeschool. It’s about giving yourself permission to look at the whole picture... not just the parts that feel familiar.What are you actually afraid of?Follow @thealannagallo for an honest look at what education can look like when you start asking different questions.
Let me be real with you.We don’t have a big hous Let me be real with you.We don’t have a big house. We don’t drive a fancy car. There are a lot of things I could be spending money on that would look really impressive from the outside.But if there’s money to be spent, it’s going on a plane ticket. A road trip. A week somewhere none of us have ever been.People think that’s irresponsible. I think sitting in the same town for eighteen years and calling it a childhood is the thing I couldn’t live with.My kids won’t remember the stuff in their rooms. They’ll remember the morning we got lost in a city where nobody spoke our language. The hike that was way harder than expected. The restaurant where we ordered something we couldn’t pronounce and loved it.That’s the education I’m building.And yeah, I homeschool. So the classroom moves with us.Follow @thealannagallo if you’re building a life that looks a little different from the outside: and feels exactly right on the inside.
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