Don't have time and energy to get your child to sit down and learn? Not a problem! Whine Free Kids * Wine Free Parents! Successful Patterns for Learning was written to slow your kids down and give you the tools you need. Education efficiency expert Linda Vettrus-Nichols reveals many of her methods from THE PATTERNED LEARNER SYSTEM(c) which includes a variety of individual kits that can be added to your child's learning routine, whether you homeschool or not. This allows you to create a customized "curriculum" depending on your child's requirements. Home-Learning instead of Home-Schooling "With the Successful Patterns for Learning, I am supporting my child's innate capacity to learn. As my husband and I teach alongside our children, they teach us as well. When we are willing to see that their challenges are their most precious gifts, our entire family benefits in so many ways." -Steena Marie Brown Early intervention is key for ensuring that all children can reach their true potential in math, reading, handwriting, and spelling. In this book you will find proven strategies for teaching children the basics, ages four and up. This book allows you to relax into learning with your child...knowing that you are teaching them just the right foundational patterns...preparing them for school (as preschoolers) or catching them up to their peers. Things have changed a great deal in schools. We've moved from the "let's see how we can help this child", to "let's push the square peg into the round hole". Push harder, push faster! Who bears the battle wounds of this new way of thinking? Actually everyone suffers. Children learn more readily if teaching methods meet their developmental needs. In order for optimal learning to take place, we get to understand what hinders the learning process. The human brain searches for patterns; how we file patterns is essential to how fast we process a response. A child can work smarter, not harder, if taught sequentially-based information that is connected. This cutting edge book allows you, the parent, to tap into the full ability of your child's brain to grow, change, and achieve brand new feats of learning. Author Linda Vettrus-Nichols has created an intuitive and effective system for teaching your child through their five senses and movement. The imprinting process she has developed will help your child clean up his or her brain for focused learning while creating a new efficient filing system for quick, accurate, and easy retrieval of learned information. Linda will empower you to integrate the foundational patterns for learning into everyday learning experiences. Learn how to teach it right the first time, saving yourself and your child headaches and heartaches for years to come! "You can't build excellent academic achievement on half a foundation. Linda Vettrus-Nichols helps all learners achieve success." -Beth Becker, Parent Advocate