{"id":17746,"date":"2011-02-24T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/?p=17746"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T16:08:46","slug":"erasable-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/erasable-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasable Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One item that has helped our homeschool is the erasable pen. Last year I heard a lecture by <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.excellenceinwriting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Pudewa <\/a>, on how to get reluctant little boys to write. One of the most valuable things I learned was that pencils can make it difficult for children to write. He explained that pencils change as you write with them. You might start writing with a fine tipped, sharpened pencil, but by the end of the paragraph you have a dull, smudgy pencil. This change can frustrate many children as well as cause them to get up from their seat 100 times to sharpen their pencils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We solved this problem in our house by purchasing <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006IZST?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00006IZST\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">erasable pens<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thehaphou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00006IZST\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. These pens cost about $12 for two dozen on Amazon, although I am sure you can find them cheaper at your local store. The <a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006IZST?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00006IZST\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pen<\/a> last for several months and they erase well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When your child uses a pen, the force they exert to make marks on the paper is very consistent, unlike with a pencil. I chose\u00a0<a target = \"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006IZST?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thehaphou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00006IZST\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">erasable pens<\/a> because my kids do not like to make mistakes or scratch things out. With my younger children (who don&#8217;t care about those things) we use washable markers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24418\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/02\/Easy-Tip-to-Help-Reluctant-Writers.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Tip to Help Reluctant Writers\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/02\/Easy-Tip-to-Help-Reluctant-Writers.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/02\/Easy-Tip-to-Help-Reluctant-Writers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24419\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/02\/Easy-Tip-to-Help-Reluctant-Writers2.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Tip to Help Reluctant Writers2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/02\/Easy-Tip-to-Help-Reluctant-Writers2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/02\/Easy-Tip-to-Help-Reluctant-Writers2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One item that has helped our homeschool is the erasable pen. Last year I heard a lecture by Andrew Pudewa , on how to get reluctant little boys to write. One of the most valuable things I learned was that pencils can make it difficult for children to write. He explained that pencils change as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-helps","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28491,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions\/28491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}