...I like to help them see their options. There are always options. I homeschooled my two children for several years and both kids are now in very good colleges (University of Virginia and Virginia Tech). I have tutored and worked with several other families that have been homeschooled or are homeschooling now. (read more)
...I have been reading on my own since the age of three. At the age of nine, I taught myself how to speedread, and I increased my reading speed from 270 words a minute to over 600 words a minute over three months. I taught a fifth grader from Afghanistan the basics of English from zero knowledge of English, and he was able to learn in about 6 months enough to begin talking to his classmates. (read more)