Summer School for Mom and Dad: Helping Our Fledglings Take Flight

Summer School for Mom and Dad: Helping Our Fledglings Take Flight
By taking 15 minutes to go over your student's schoolwork every day, you can keep an eye on his or her progress. fizkes/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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Few words in the English language are sweeter to most young folks, particularly pre-teens, than summertime.

No more being roused at dawn to catch a bus. No more racing around the house looking for that missing shoe or English essay. No more days scheduled by bells and classes. No more worrying about tests or homework assignments. To a whole army of the young, summertime is spelled F-R-E-E-D-O-M.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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