Let's try this again LOL! Since I'm writing for several other blogs now, it seems appropriate to resurrect this one while I'm at it. Not much has changed since the last post-I'm still working as a private tutor, both online and off. I'm doing more writing for real money and a few less workshops, though I still like that side of my business. I suspect that some of the grant money sources that paid for my workshop efforts have dried up. The reason I suspect this is because I've added grant writing to my list of business services and have first hand experience here with gathering up funding for projects like that. Actually doing fairly well at it, too! I think I've got about a fifty percent success rate at getting projects funded, which they tell me is pretty good.

Now here's an educational-sort of tip for today:

Help your youngster memorize those troublesome math facts! In spite of what the school may be telling you, it *IS* important to memorize the silly things. Pick one fact that is particularly troublesome and make it your baby for a week. Tell your student they only have to learn this one fact right now. Ask him or her to respond to it (What is 2x2?) whenever you get in the car together, or whenever he or she reaches into the fridge, or whatever other activity that you do a lot. Before you know it, the fact will be memorized and you can move on to try the same technique with another one. Your child will thank you when he or she starts to work with fractions, algebra, and calculus down the road.