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Welcome to the website of Clarissa R. West! All articles and PDFs are researched, written, and published by Clarissa; she retains the copyright. This site may contain affiliate links and collect cookies. Please read my full disclosure and privacy policy for more info. Author: Clarissa R. West There are a lot of reasons why you should homeschool your disabled child. Let…
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I am sharing How Typing Improves Creative Writing, based on my family’s experience. I have several children, and I have been homeschooling since 2010, when my oldest child turned five. Teaching handwriting was difficult with each of my children. Once they learned to form letters, they still struggled to write fluently for several years. Do me a favor? Share your…
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The Importance of Teaching Life-Sustaining Skills I grew up with my grandparents and parents doing (or talking about how they used to do) things like gardening, canning/preserving food, sewing, and milking a cow. But my childhood was the age of technology – the internet was up and coming – so, those old-fashioned skills were quickly going out of style. (I…
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Here are 21 meaningful and realistic habits to cultivate in the new year. Choose one to focus on until you have mastered it. HABIT, noun [Latin habitus, from habeo, to have to hold.] A disposition or condition of the mind or body acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. habit is that which is held or retained,…
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Every year, I revisit my top 12 (big) New Year’s Goals that I have focused on over the last few years and make a few changes for the upcoming year. These goals continue to be the foundation on which I build my spiritual, physical, and mental health. Some of these goals require just a few minutes of my time every…
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