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Carol Barnier Presentations
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"Don't Miss the Gift in This Child-often used as a keynote" "If I'm Diapering A Watermelon, Then Where'd I Leave the Baby?" Oddly Wrapped Gifts: Find God's Gifts in Life's Toughest Moments. Margins for Moms. Limits that Liberate Teaching Your Child to Read...Made Easy HELP! How Do I Teach this Highly Distractible Child Creation of a Homeschool Co-op Why Am I Doing This? Help! I Fell off my Lesson Plan! A Year in Missions What are you THINKING? – Learning Styles and Beyond A Prodigal Speaks Out Practical Parenting -- What I Know Now That I Wish I'd Known Then.
"Don't Miss the Gift in This Child-often used as a keynote"
Have you ever heard someone say "All children are gifts from God" only to roll your eyes and think... "Ha! They don't know what goes on in my house!" If you don't look for God's gifts, you may be missing some of His best. Come laugh and be encouraged to see just what God had in mind when he designed your child. Learn how to see your child through God's spectacles and how to stay focused on God's vision of your child...not the world's.
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"If I'm Diapering A Watermelon, Then Where'd I Leave the Baby?"
Why do we start for the kitchen to get a drink for a child, get sidetracked by a paperclip on the floor and end up weeding in the garden with no idea why our child is still thirsty? Why do library books constantly disappear into black holes in our homes, never to be seen again?...at least not before the fines add up? Why do we have 25 great educational programs or projects started and only 2 or 3 are ever finished? As a self-proclaimed "Gloriously Unregimented Mom", Carol shares stories and strategies from the heart (and from the trenches!) about a home run by a highly distractible mom. She brings to light the many "truths" distractible moms must own if ever they are to develop strategies that work. Best of all, Carol shares her firm conviction that the highly distractible mom has a real and God-given edge over the naturally organized mom. Come and learn and laugh as you find REAL help for the highly distractible mom.
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Oddly Wrapped Gifts: Find God's Gifts in Life's Toughest Moments.
Guilt, anger, depression, jealousy, guilt...there is an extraordinary gift residing within. How to go through the process of claiming these gifts and freeing yourself from the damaging power of the painful accompaniments that often take up residence.
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Margins for Moms. Limits that Liberate
Too often we've just accepted how busy our lives our supposed to be. But many of us are running through life in a frenzied fog. We have a nagging sense that it shouldn't be this way, but don't know how it should be. Even if we did, we often don't know how to get from here to there. With a bit of laughter and an unabashed challenge of the status quo, learn to take control of the input and output of your family's lives.
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Teaching Your Child to Read...Made Easy
Relax. It's easier than you think. This workshop will walk you step-by-step through a simple and easy-to-use method based on phonics and fun combined in a simple game that kids will ask for day after day. The game is learned in one minute but will grow with your child through years of learning. All the materials for this method will cost you less than $2.00
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HELP! How Do I Teach this Highly Distractible Child
A two-session workshop that attracts not only families with ADHD children, but also those whose children are simply fidgety. How do you teach a child with an impossibly short attention span? This home schooling mom of a supercharged, highly distractible child shares the practical tips that turned their home schooling from an exercise in pain and frustration to one of pleasure and success. Topics include, putting motion into learning, making math fun, the unique difficulty with writing and decreasing distractions. Also a thought provoking commentary on "What was God thinking?" when he put such qualities in your child. Come and learn practical tips that you can start using Monday morning.
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Creation of a Homeschool Co-op
Follow the ups & downs, the mistakes and the rewards of the first two years of a now-thriving homeschool co-op. Learn how to start, what questions to ask, what costs you can expect, what policies you need up front, and what surprising things human behavior will add to the equation. This workshop meets a growing need in the leadership development programs or pre-conferences that are being promoted by key home schooling organizations in states and provinces.
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Why Am I Doing This?
The longer title of this presentation is "If Thou Seekest Deep Appreciation, Goest Thou Quickly and Buyest Thee a Dog." Volunteering your time and energies can produce wonderful fruit, but it can also provide frustration and even pain. After putting your very best into a project for others, you may find yourself saying, "Why Am I Doing This?" Spend a few fun moments with Carol reflecting on the true value in service and renew your fire and enthusiasm for your chosen service.
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Help! I Fell off my Lesson Plan!
When things don’t go as planned, when no one can seem to focus on their spelling, when the kids (and you) need an off day, what can you do? A day away from the lesson plan doesn’t have to mean learning is over. Come learn lots of ideas for an atypical day that are fun, memorable and packed with learning.
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A Year in Missions
Imagine learning about the exciting lives of missionaries in a way that incorporates history and geography, science and language. Any study of history should begin with people. You can make missions a year-long unit study that covers a full school year of learning (you will need your own math program). Find out how to take well written biographies that engage your child and create a year-long study covering a multitude of learning while enriching your child's faith through a study of the lives of people who devoted themselves to teaching others about Christ
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What are you THINKING? – Learning Styles and Beyond
This talk is BIG on the beyond. So often, learning style materials pour all their time and energy into finding the right label for your child’s learning style. (Yes, we now know he’s a right brained, global, sub-dominant, argyle-wearing, rational wombat....but....how do I teach him to spell?) And while there are many different tools for assessment, too often these same materials are light on just what you should do after the label. How do you teach history so it sticks? What if she can’t understand fractions? What if he loves language but hates to write? This workshop will be all about "What do we do now?" Come away with lots of ideas you can use Monday morning.
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A Prodigal Speaks Out
Do you have a child who is doubting his faith? Or perhaps a daughter who has rejected your beliefs completely? Are you convinced you’ve failed....and the state of this child’s heart is weighing heavily on you and your spouse? Come and listen to Carol share her own journey away from and back to her faith after 13 years as an atheist. She’ll share thoughts and views from inside the mind of a lost child. You’ll learn the best thing you can do for this child and for yourself. Come and find an understanding heart that hurts and rejoices along with your own.
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Practical Parenting -- What I Know Now That I Wish I'd Known Then.
Why don't kids arrive AFTER we've gained our parenting experience? Why can't we have a rewind button allow us to re-do what we did do back when we didn't know what to do? Carol shares some of what she's learned through the many ups and downs in her years as a homeschooling mom.
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