Special guest Aaron Brewster brings his insights about expectational homeschooling — expecting great things from your kids to stimulate amazing results. Your kids don't have to be geniuses or gifted to excel. You simply need to nurture their innate abilities with high expectations.
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TIMESTAMPS
02:37 Aaron's background with homeschooling.
06:17 How Aaron's mom planted the roots of what he calls expectational learning.
09:32 Socialization for homeschoolers
11:23 The benefits of a multi-generational home.
13:35 The lie that you have to have a degree in education to successfully homeschool your own children.
15:38 How the expectational approach meshes with any other homeschool philosophy: unschooling, Classical, etc.
23:15 What geniuses have in common.
26:33 The problem with lowering expectations and making things easier.
27:20 How to distinguish between high expectations and unrealistic expectations.
29:47 How the modern concept of adolescence has changed expectations of children/teens.
35:57 Mental maturity vs. physical maturity.
43:43 What if kids don't match our high expectations?
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