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Raising Confident Kids

Helpful Tips on raising independent children while keeping our sanity intact.

Sittervising: What you really need to understand
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Sittervising: What you really need to understand

4 Early Literacy Skills To Teach Your Kids
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4 Early Literacy Skills To Teach Your Kids

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What To Do When A Child Refuses To Read (Ages 5-9)

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How To Get Your 5-Year-Old To Listen & Behave Without Yelling!

Why Do Babies and Toddlers Throw Things on the Floor?
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Why Do Babies and Toddlers Throw Things on the Floor?

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Montessori vs Public School: What’s the difference?

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What Is Cognitive Development? (Explained!)

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Weaning Table Vs High Chair: Which Should You Go With?

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Qualities Of A Good Parent: According To Who?

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Pros and cons of utilizing a Montessori-Style floor bed

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thealannagallo

Helping parents rethink school, screens + modern childhood
Former teacher (M.Ed) → secular homeschooler
Raising curious, real-world-ready kids ↓

One of my favorite things about homeschooling is b One of my favorite things about homeschooling is being able to customize my kids’ education around their interests.Every summer, we ask: “What do you want to learn next?”This summer we’re focusing on chess and writing, and @outschool makes it so easy to find high-quality classes that match exactly what my kids are excited about.Whether your child loves creative writing, coding, art, science, chess, or something completely unique, there are classes taught by passionate educators from around the world.Summer learning doesn’t have to look like worksheets and busywork. It can look like curiosity, passion, and learning by choice.Comment OUTSCHOOL and I’ll send you the link to get $50 off classes to try it this summer.#outschoolinsider #outschoolsummer #flexiblelearning #summerslide #homeschooling
People ask me all the time how I plan to make sure People ask me all the time how I plan to make sure my kids are well-rounded without traditional school.I take them to Mexico. To the Dominican Republic. To places where the history is complex, the culture is rich, and the people are real.My kids aren’t learning about the world from a textbook written by someone who’s never left the country. They’re learning from the world itself.That’s how you raise kids who aren’t afraid of people who look different from them. Who don’t assume their way of life is the right way. Who can sit across from someone completely different from themselves and find common ground.Ethnocentrism isn’t born. It’s taught. By what we expose our kids to. And what we don’t.We choose differently.Follow @thealannagallo for more.
Please go look up the importance of sleep on child Please go look up the importance of sleep on child development 😅 About 44% to 77% of U.S. kids are sleep deprived….Lack of quality sleep is 💯 impacting many kids physical and mental health. It also exacerbates symptoms of ADHD and autism 😅 so this ND mom to multiple ND kids is protecting it at all costs.Modern homeschooling isn’t just about opting out of the education system… it’s much bigger than that. We are opting out of all the systems that don’t serve us.#secularhomeschoolers #secularhomeschool
I’m not screen-intentional because I think I’m a p I’m not screen-intentional because I think I’m a perfect parent. I’m screen-intentional because I’ve seen what happens when my kids don’t have one to reach for.Follow @thealannagallo for more of our totally intentional, slightly countercultural life.
Nobody designed these games to be educational. Nob Nobody designed these games to be educational. Nobody was thinking about executive function or social development or attention spans.They were just fun.But here’s what’s wild: we were outside, moving, problem solving, competing, failing, and figuring things out together. Without a single screen involved.I think about this a lot when I watch my kids play. The less structured it is, the more they’re actually building.We didn’t need an app for that in 1993. We still don’t.Follow @thealannagallo for more.
Scarier than anything Netflix could come up with. Scarier than anything Netflix could come up with.Because somewhere along the way we decided that 7 year olds needed a 30 step skincare routine, recess was a privilege and not a right, and handing a kid a screen was easier than sitting with their boredom.And schools? Schools stopped assigning novels because kids can’t focus long enough to finish them. We gave them AI generated summaries and called it learning.This is the stuff that actually keeps me up at night. Not monsters. This.Follow @thealannagallo for more of these completely unhinged but entirely true observations.
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