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| Preface | |
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| The Power of a Parent | |
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| The Greatest Choice You Will Ever Make | |
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| For Home Educators and Non-Home Educators Alike | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Our First Four Students Earned Free College Educations | |
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| Excellence in Motion | |
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| The Startling Truth | |
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| Goals and Success | |
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| How I Lost My Mind | |
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| Benefits Beyond Education | |
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| Experience: The Best Teacher | |
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| The Bicycle Analogy | |
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| Letting Go | |
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| The Three Elements of the Self-Propelled Advantage | |
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| Self-Learning | |
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| Mastery | |
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| Self-Mastery | |
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| The Most Important Thing | |
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| Operation Motivation | |
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| Sources of Motivation | |
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| Attitude Is Everything | |
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| Ownership | |
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| What If? | |
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| Types of Motivation | |
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| Drive | |
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| What About Grades? | |
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| Time for Change | |
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| The Marshmallow Study | |
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| Seeing the Big Picture | |
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| The Perfect Score Study | |
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| Are Perfect Scores Weird? | |
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| Perfect Score Kids and Motivation | |
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| The X Factor | |
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| What About the Parents of Perfect Scores? | |
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| Home-Educated Students and the SAT | |
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| A Word on Parenting | |
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| Self-Esteem | |
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| How to Demotivate | |
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| Final Thoughts on the Perfect Score Study | |
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| Purpose | |
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| Bonus Tip: Four Little Magic Words | |
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| An Inner Drive to Succeed | |
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| Educational Options | |
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| Public Schools | |
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| Public Schools and the Self-Propelled Advantage | |
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| Private and Parochial Schools | |
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| Private Schools and the Self-Propelled Advantage | |
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| Home Education | |
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| Home Education and the Self-Propelled Advantage | |
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| Why Not Choose Home Education? | |
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| Which Type of Education Is the Best? | |
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| What If Both My Spouse and I Work Full-Time? | |
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| If You Don't Know Where to Start | |
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| Element 1: Self-Mastery | |
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| A Parent's Incredible Impact | |
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| Public Displays | |
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| How Do You Teach Self-Mastery? | |
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| The Five Steps to Self-Mastery | |
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| Who Runs Your Home? | |
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| Set House Rules and Expectations | |
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| Expectations and the Very Young Child | |
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| Expectations and Older Children | |
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| Keys to Expectation Setting | |
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| Set Consequences | |
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| The Power of a Praising Parent | |
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| A Thankful Heart is a Happy Heart | |
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| Discipline | |
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| Other Discipline Issues | |
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| Discipline and Guilt | |
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| Self-Mastery and the Advantage | |
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| The Behavior Barometer | |
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| The Fruit of Effective Parenting | |
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| Home Education Is No Silver Bullet, But... | |
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| Family Meeting | |
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| Group Discussions | |
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| The Parent-Child Meeting | |
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| Natural Consequences | |
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| Deferring Discipline to Dad | |
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| Combining Steps | |
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| Discipline and the Single Parent | |
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| The Past | |
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| Observer and Respond | |
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| Repeat as Needed | |
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| Showing Respect | |
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| Teen Issues | |
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| The Link | |
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| Element 2: Mastery Mindset | |
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| Is Teaching to Mastery Cheating? | |
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| What is the Goal of Education? | |
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| Why Don't Schools Teach to Mastery? | |
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| Success Motivates! | |
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| How to Instill the Love of Learning | |
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| A Mindset of Trust | |
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| The Gift | |
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| Mandated Mediocrity Versus Mastery | |
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| Government Regulations | |
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| Tips for Students in a Classroom | |
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| In Conclusion | |
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| Element 3: Self-Teaching | |
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| What Is Self-Teaching? | |
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| Self-Teaching and the Classroom Environment | |
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| An Overview of Self-Teaching | |
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| Who? | |
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| Where? | |
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| Why? | |
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| How? | |
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| When? | |
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| Negatives? | |
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| Cornerstones of a Self-Teaching Home | |
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| Record Keeping as Motivation | |
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| A Sometimes-Overlooked Benefit of Self-Teaching | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Self-Teaching and Young Children | |
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| The Five Steps to Self-Teaching Success | |
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| A Parent-Directed Approach | |
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| Provide a Planner | |
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| Gather Curriculum | |
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| Set Short-Term Goals | |
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| What Does the First Day of School Look Like? | |
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| A Note About Lesson Times | |
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| Working Ahead | |
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| Readiness | |
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| Monitor | |
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| After Each Quarter | |
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| Parent-Directed Learning with a Reading Child | |
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| Transition Time | |
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| Letting Go | |
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| Self-Teaching and Older Children | |
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| Student-Directed Learning for Middle School Students | |
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| Student-Directed Learning for High School Students | |
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| Courage to Face High School | |
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| Focus on Strengths | |
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| How Does this Mesh with Mastery? | |
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| The Five Steps to Self-Teaching Success | |
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| Provide a Planner | |
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| Gather Curriculum | |
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| Set Short-Term Goals | |
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| Fleshing It Out | |
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| Breaking It Down | |
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| At the End of a Quarter | |
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| Monitor | |
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| What is Accountability? | |
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| To Test or Not to Test | |
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| At the End of the Year | |
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| Grades | |
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| Let Go of the Bicycle) | |
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| Ultimate Goals | |
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| What About Curriculum? | |
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| Worldview | |
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| Home Education and Curriculum | |
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| What's More Important Than Curriculum? | |
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| How to Use Curriculum | |
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| Virtual Schools and Curriculum | |
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| When You May Need to Change Curriculum | |
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| Pulling Back the Curriculum Curtain | |
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| Curriculum Conclusion | |
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| High School and Beyond | |
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| Self-Teaching in High School | |
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| High School Record Keeping | |
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| Advantages for the Self-Propelled High School Student | |
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| The College Admissions Process | |
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| Preparing Your High School Junior for College | |
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| Senior Year Sanity Tips | |
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| Scholarships and Financial Aid | |
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| What About CLEP Tests? | |
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| AP Exams | |
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| Dual Enrollment | |
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| Distance Learning | |
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| Summary | |
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| Helping Your Student Uncover His Areas of Interest | |
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| Start at the End, Work Backwards | |
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| Calderwood Kids Speak | |
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| A Student's Take on Self-Teaching | |
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| Siblings Speak | |
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| Questions for the College-Aged Kids | |
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| Your Legacy | |
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| What Are You Seeking? | |
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| What I Would Change | |
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| One Final Question | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Author | |