Cindy Nicolai:  Homeschool Conference Speaker and Workshop Leader Details

• Homeschooling: Keeping Records

Choosing Curriculum That Fits Your Child
Choosing the right curriculum for your child can be overwhelming. There are so many great vendors to choose from and so many different styles that you don’t know where to start. In this workshop, you will be given a passport to help you discover the many learning styles and curriculum methods available and which ones will work best for your child.

Taming the Beast of Record Keeping
Transcripts! Credit Hours and Grades! Oh, My! If the thought of keeping records for your homeschool haunts you, this workshop will help you tame the beast and get your records in order. If you have never kept records, you will learn what you need to keep and what you can throw away, methods of record-keeping, how long to keep the records, and much more.

Who Wants To Send Your Children To Public School? Raise Your Hand
FREE education, FREE curriculum, FREE computers, FREE internet access all to be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home! Sounds enticing, doesn’t it? Online virtual schools can offer big incentives to homeschoolers, but are they really free? If you enroll your child in one of these schools, are you still considered to be homeschooling? This workshop will give you the lowdown on virtual schools and the legislative impact they will have on home education.

Who’s On First? Balancing Homeschool and Life (for Moms)
The homeschool mom usually has her plate so full that she often finds herself neglecting the important for the sake of the urgent.  Trying to balance your time between homeschool, your kids, your spouse, the church, extra-curricular activities and everything else in-between is a difficult task. Unfortunately, the spouse is most often the one that is put on the back burner. This workshop will help you put life back in the proper perspective and put the important back in his proper place.

Socialization 101: I Just Want To Fit In (for teens)
Socialization seems to be the big issue when people find out you are homeschooled. Because you don’t participate in what the world views as normal teen activities, you are often stereo-typed and given a label that is not exactly flattering. Sometimes the urges to just be “normal” and to “fit in” make you wish you didn’t homeschool. In this interactive workshop, you will discover that “normal” is just a setting on your washing machine and “fitting in” isn’t what it is cracked up to be.