Find your child's inner motivation and passion.

We're Jonathan and Renee Harris.

Our background began as most couples do when they marry in the 90's: man meets woman, both have degrees, both have debt.

Man is unfulfilled in his career and woman wonders if her degree is even useful since she plans to stay home with the kids. 

We both enjoyed college and we stuck with where our degrees brought us, at first. Jonathan entered the tech field while Renee taught middle school and adult night school for a couple of years.

Fourteen years and seven babies later, we started to think outside the box. We re-thought how we home educated our children. We thought about their future and how we wanted them to enter it pursuing something they loved. We even changed our own trajectory and began our own business selling handcrafted skin care online.

His time freed up from tech work, Jonathan began to earnestly look for ways to make the standard educational time more productive and worthwhile. His fear was that we were going to spend so much time perfecting educational details and still wind up getting to where we really didn’t want to be.

He wanted to be able to give our children an inspiration to develop a focus and a drive to cultivate something that they would eventually be very, very good at, and maybe even something that they could use to provide for themselves with a generous living.

He started experimenting by dovetailing his standard study times as a means to push our children into a deeper understanding around one chosen topic of their interest. 

Other ideas became equally as successful. All the while, motivation in our children took off. Each new pre-teen gave him more opportunities to test and tweak his ideas.

Because of these home-grown experimentations in education, he discovered some great techniques and ideas along the way that we want to share with other parents, homeschooling or not. 

We now have four of our nine children grown and out of the house, each pursuing their own paths.

Fully self-sufficient. And they're passionate about it.

(Scroll down to meet the kids.)

We've outlined 5 unique pillars below.

If you have a child between the ages of around 12 to 14, start with Pillar #1.  At this age, they rely on their parents' input and often need one-on-one guidance. The more self-sufficient child can skip this Pillar.

Whether you follow the Pillars in order, or choose the one that most intrigues you, you will find that adopting just one idea from each Pillar will put your child years ahead of his peers and on the path to success and loaded with motivation.

The more Pillars you follow and ideas you implement, the faster your child will move through his success path. Remember, we're providing you with ideas and resources for your child to 1.) start with an interest, 2.) put it through the "does this make sense for our family" test, 3.) find ways to free up your child to grow this interest into true talent development and 4.) showcase his work.  By the time he's 18, he'll have a clear idea of what the next five years will look like for him.

You will find that your child will surround himself with quality people who are his mentors and cheerleaders. He'll be challenged, valued, stretched... everything you would have hoped for to get through what you expected to be his "troubled teens" you will have, and so much more. He'll bypass those troubling years. 

How do you find your child's interests? Start below!

Those who have watched the method in action, say this about it: