the fact that we are a Jewish homeschool family differentiates us the most because there are very few Jewish homeschoolers. In fact, I helped create the very first Jewish homeschool curriculum, Ani VeAmi, which means “I and my people.”
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A friend asked me the other day about her child, “He loves to crash and play but can’t calm down very easily when he is hyped up, and he also eats holes in all his shirts. Do you think they could be related?” Before she finished, the memories flooded back of one of my kids at a younger age when I was asking similar questions about them. I’m not an expert, but I am a parent privileged to have met some amazing professionals along the way who have given me insight and clues to understand my very own outside the box kids.
When we had the opportunity to pursue testing for learning disabilities and giftedness, we discovered there was a name for these struggles, dyscalculia. Now they had their own learning disability to fit in with their siblings, who are dyslexic and autistic.
For my youngest it was dyslexia and we wondered when he wasn’t reading as soon as his siblings did. I didn’t realize all his tower building as a toddler also pointed to being dyslexic. Learning more about the strengths of it made me glad we are homeschooling our dyslexic child.
