Recipe for teaching Home Ec
Almost all parents tell me they believe communication skills are important but most have no idea to what extent. We use our communication skills thousands of times a day! Homeschooling parents use communication skills even more often. You cannot teach if you cannot communicate-PERIOD! And the more effectively you communicate with your student, the more effective a teacher you are. By the way, teaching Home Ec is probably more saturated with communication skills than other subjects you teach because you usually do it without benefit of a text relying mostly on hands on involvement as the student models or at least checks with the teacher at various times during a complicated process. It's not like math where we homeschool teachers...