20 Ideas for Raising A Smart Homeschooled Child

Ever wonder what successful homeschooling parents do to encourage a life-long love of learning? Check out the National African-American Homeschoolers Alliance's Top 20 List. Here are the Top Five Ideas:

1. Get your child a library card. Make sure she uses it.
2. Don't put a television in your child's room. Minimal learning takes place in front of the tube. Fill your child's room with books instead.
3. Turn off the TV and read to your child every night. TIVO any show you think you'll miss. Watch it when she's asleep.
4. Encourage your child to explore outside -- in nature -- and then help her learn more about what she observed outside in books.
5. Don't buy another video game for your child. Buy him books instead.