The Self-Propelled Advantage (Joanne Calderwood)

The Self-Propelled Advantage

The Parent’s Guide to Raising Independent, Motivated Kids Who Learn with Excellence

If you know there has to be a better way to educate your children, but you don’t quite know what it is, The Self-Propelled Advantage is for you. What if there was a way to:

– Raise children who cheerfully do what they are supposed to do, when they are supposed to do it, without fussing and fighting and warring with parents and siblings, and who treat you with respect?

– Know for sure that your children are receiving the best education available to them, and if not, make a change?

– Raise children who set their own educational goals and work with excellence to achieve them on a daily basis without the need for parents or a teacher to watch over them and keep them on task?

– Give your children an educational advantage that enables them to go to their first-choice college for free?

– Develop unbreakable bonds with your children that last a lifetime?

– Raise children whose ordinary is extraordinary?

The Self-Propelled Advantage recognizes that you are the expert on your home and family; supports you in your right to choose how your children can best be educated; and shares with you a three-pronged approach that will enable you and your kids to achieve the goals outlined above.

Table of Contents

The full table of contents is several pages long, but the key headings are shown below:

1. Excellence in Motion
2. Operation Motivation
3. Educational Options
4. Self-Mastery
5. Mastery Mindset
6. Self-Teaching
7. Self-Teaching and Young Children
8.  … and Older Children
9. What About Curriculum?
10. High School and Beyond
11. Calderwood Kids Speak
12. Your Legacy

About the Author

Born and raised in Summerdale, Pennsylvania, Joanne Calderwood has been working with children for over thirty years. She graduated from Geneva College with a degree in elementary education. Since then Joanne has been a youth director, a houseparent at a children’s home, a fourth grade teacher, and has borne her own eight children. (Seventy-two months of pregnancy, but who’s counting?)

Joanne is the founder of URtheMOM.com, a site designed to encourage and equip parents for the incredibly amazing and taxing job of raising self-propelled children in a couch-potato world.  She is a columnist with Home School Enrichment magazine.