{"id":2975,"date":"2015-06-11T09:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2015-07-25T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T21:35:08","slug":"getting-ready-for-school-2015-become-a-problem-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/getting-ready-for-school-2015-become-a-problem-solver\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for School 2015: Become a Problem Solver!"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n I hope your summer is going well so far! Summer is the perfect time to get ready for the next school year, so we are starting a series called Getting Ready for School 2015 in which we will run some oldies (the tried and true tips from thirty-plus years of homeschooling) as well as some fresh, new advice to make this school year great!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the best skills that you can acquire as a homeschooling parent is to become a <\/a>problem-solver! See a problem\u2014and meet it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ray and I worked hard throughout our thirty years of homeschooling in an effort to solve problems\u2014and there were many of them with that many years of homeschooling seven children! We didn\u2019t tackle all of our problems at once. We didn\u2019t throw up our hands and say that we couldn\u2019t solve them all, so let\u2019s just forget it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We picked the most troublesome problem in any given week and made a plan of attack. Then we stuck to our guns until that problem was solved\u2014and didn\u2019t try to solve a bunch of others at the same time. When that problem was solved, we were ready to solve another one. (Read more about this approach here<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes, it was slow going sometimes. Oftentimes, it would take more than one week to solve the problem at hand\u2014and we couldn\u2019t dig into another one right away. However, any sort of ongoing problem solving (even at the rate of one every other week or one a month) is far better than no problem solving at all!<\/p>\n