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If Camp Is Closed, Kids Can Spend the Summer on a Passion Project
Pick a topic and do a deep dive, says a home-schooling expert.
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After home schooling for months, many parents are faced now with having to occupy kids all summer. How do you segue? “Put away the textbook,” says Elizabeth Kanna, co-author of Homeschooling for Success: How Parents Can Create a Superior Education for Their Child and founder of Homeschool.com. “Stop worrying about learning loss.”
Kanna, who has three adult daughters, was long done with home schooling. Then the pandemic hit. “I had so many friends who were like, ‘I need advice. Tell me what you did.’” So Kanna wrote a summer guide to child-led explorations that foster curiosity. A three-step plan: