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YouTube is an amazing resource. With the click of a button, it gives us access to videos of everything from beer-making tutorials to Jimmy Hendrix playing the national anthem at Woodstock. Its algorithm probably knows your kid better than you do, meaning it can feed them exactly what they want, from toy unboxings to to video game streams to cartoons. But aside from the fear that your kid will soon get addicted to all this media, as we all have, you also have to worry about them coming across all the vile stuff happening all over the Internet, from pedophile-approved...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Homeschooling Teens with Autism, Interview with Penny Rogers. Homeschooling Teens with Autism, Interview with Penny Rogers Vicki was so excited for this episode. She has been a long time that she has been trying to connect with Penny Rogers, who is another of our friends from our beloved 2:1 Conference. Penny is an autism advocate, speaker, resource expert and founder of the popular website Our Crazy Adventures in Autism Land. Penny lives with her husband and two children in southern Arizona (just twenty minutes from the Mexican border). She has been homeschooling for many,...

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The “terrible twos,” young children telling lies, teenagers’ heavy sarcasm — the list of different kinds of youthful behavior that adults struggle with is long. Other characteristics are more charming but equally mysterious: The way toddlers reveal themselves easily when playing hide and seek, the way young children thrill when shouting “He’s behind you,” their fascination with magic tricks.What’s going on in children’s minds? Many of these events — the annoying, the charming, the dubious — reflect important steps in cognitive development. All reflect children’s emerging understanding of people’s minds. Children’s growing awareness of other people’s thinking is called a...