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Real Reason Kids Don't Write.

Once Your Child Learns the 12 Secrets of Writing,
you’ll only need to invest 10 Minutes (or less) a day for dramatic results.
-Dr. Fred Ray Lybrand

 

SOLVED: Why isn’t Writing Natural and Easy for All of Us?

(Reason #1)
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99% of schools and writing courses get kids so stressed out about grammar and spelling that they forget that they’re even trying to say something. And we turn the whole process upside down, and we get kids writing at amazing speeds…even if they have x-y-z disabilities.


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Quite frankly, your child may be very normal (OR ADVANCED) and not have any real LD issues at all. But, can you help worrying that they won’t ever learn to write because they are so often frustrated, scared, or downright angry about having to write?
 
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Why You Should Be Worried

Between texting (LOL…OMG…etc.) and poor teaching approaches in the mass education world, students are continuing a downward drift in the ability to express themselves well on paper. Imagine what it will be like in college for a student who doesn’t learn to write well: Embarassment, anger, tears, and finally quitting or being sent to a writing lab.
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On one hand, it will be great for them to finally get it if they don’t quit. But on the other hand, imagine what a lifetime of work that requires AT LEAST clarity in emails will mean for one who never learns to write whenever he wants. In fact, this may be you! I have a pile of notes from parents just like you who feel like they can’t help there children with writing because they really don’t get it either. In some ways, this becomes and inter-generational pattern that passes along a legacy of weakness that affects college and career alike.
 
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Why There is Hope

Here are a few actual quotes from our files from Mom’s and Dad’s everywhere about the problem of teaching kids to write:
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  • “The process is overwhelming”
  • “I don’t know how to get my child inspired about writing”
  • “I don’t know where to start”
  • “I just want them to write something, anything, on the page”
  • “I’m trying to undo the harmful, lasting effects of both public and private school”
  • “How can I teach when I was never taught how to write myself?”
  • “How do I get my son interested in writing?”
  • “I don’t know if my child is doing enough”
  • “How do I correct my child’s paper?”
  • “How do I get my child to think up what to write about?”
  • “Our biggest challenge is lack of time”
  • “Our biggest challenge is finding a writing approach that fits into our educational philosophy and doesn’t produce tears every time I ask the children to write”
 
 
Those are just a sample, but you may not realize the real reason your child is struggling with writing is that there is Poison in the Process itself:
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Face it, grammar teachers never win Nobel Prizes for Literature.

I’m not saying that your child will be an Earnest Hemingway or a Toni Morrison. But do you really think learning to write like a computer text book is the way to go? Dull, boring, but ‘correct’ according to the grammar teachers.
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MOST TEACHERS WON’T TELL YOU THE TRUTH (because they don’t know it either). Face it, it is the obsession with perfect writing that kills your child’s creativity and hope. How will they ever find their own writing voice if they continue to make the public and governmental standards that don’t work the way to go? Teachers mean well, but all they can do is what was done to them. In counseling they say it this way, “Hurt people, hurt people.” How else can they teach except to overwhelm students with the same painful rules they learned to ‘love’?
 
They labored and struggled and made themselves learn good grammar and ‘correct writing’ to please their own teachers. It goes back in time to the key players like Robert Lowth who wrote the Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762). He thought you had to know English grammar before you could study another language (lucky he was born in England!). These people meant well, but they started to hurt most of us by thinking we can’t learn unless we are taught. I’m here to expose this flaw and to give your student back a love for writing.
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(Reason #2)
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It’s About the Fear:

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Imagine all the energy that goes into trying to remember all the right grammar…don’t write in passive voice…follow the 31 rules of commas…never misspell…use colorful language…don’t sound stupid…AND OF COURSE…we are going to mark your paper up and show you how bad it is:

Correcting a Paper the WRONG Way…
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Which in turn means your child is thinking
Bad Writing = Bad Me

Which in turn means your child is resisting writing
Writing = Pain

Which in turn means you must make your child write
Not Writing = Bad Teacher

Which in turn means you are thinking
Bad Teacher = Pain

Which in turn means you you must conflict
Child’s Pain vs. Mommy’s Pain

Of course, it could be Daddy too…but either way it’s a mess, a battle of wills. We know how to cure this dilemma by taking away the pain of writing and by showing you exactly how to help your child in the best way possible (and you don’t have to be a good writer to do it).
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Jedi-Mind-Tricks:

There are dozens of pieces that fit together when a students starts making sense of language and begins to enjoy the creative pleasure of writing with his unique voice to share his own message. Here are a couple of things you can do today to help your child learn how to write with joy.
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Mind-trick 1

Require writing that is only OK. The great mistake teachers make (and home educators) is to give the idea that the student should begin with perfection or great writing. It’s an impossibility anyway, so why start there? Instead, realize there are 3 STAGES in writing: (1) OK, (2) Get Help, and (3) Make it Great. If your child can start writing something OK to begin with, she will feel a huge load removed from her little back.

Mind-trick 2

Make suggestions (corrections) by suggesting a better way for it to SOUND when read out loud. So, you read the way your child wrote it out loud and then ask,”Does this sound a little better?” …and read the way you would suggest saying it. Make the issue how it sound, not what a grammar book says. You will find that your child will start agreeing, or she may even come up with a better sounding sentence!

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Warning

If your children love to write and are doing great, then you really aren’t on the right page (do a Google Search for “Writing Contests” instead).
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But if your child is not finding joy and freedom in writing practice, then he or she is missing out on one of the greatest opportunities God has given all of us. Yes, God (He invented language and has written a few books himself)! Once a person learns how to write in her own unique voice, she is able to touch others in a genuinely unique way, and often for decades to come. It may be published, or it may be in letters left to others, or in blogs and forums that are dealing with how to help a failing world.

 

 

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MY PROMISE TO YOU & YOUR struggling CHILD

If you have a child who hates write, is just a little reluctant, or who cries through every writing assignment; and
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If you will print out our Writing Course Workbook, play the audio lessons, and have your student just take a few notes and try our fun exercises; then
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Before the end of our 18 fast-start lessons (30 minutes or less each) you will begin to see the astonishing transformation from frustrated child to calm-and-motivated writing student; or
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I’ll give you your money back plus 10 dollars as a ‘thank you’ (so you won’t talk bad about me if I disappointed you 😉 within 48 hours after receiving your request
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Who Am I? What’s My Story?

I wanted to write, but it was painful until I learned the WRITING’S 12 SECRETS.

Here’s the simple truth; if education could teach someone to write I wouldn’t have had to unravel almost everything I learned in order to get free to write the 8 books (and many articles) I’ve written.

I went to a college prep school in the foothills of the Appalachians in a little town called Anniston, Alabama. In taking the ACT I scored well enough for an instant admission to The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa); however, I basically flunked the English section. I didn’t get it…I couldn’t keep all the rules in my head and writing things exactly perfect as I had been taught.

As a result, I majored in English Literature at Alabama. I minored in Fiction Writing and I was even in the English Honor Society. My Law School admission results were where Harvard Law School accepts applicants.

Am I bragging? Nope…I’m complaining!

I still had no idea how to write. I had no understanding of grammar; in fact, I couldn’t find a single grammar course to take while in college. The only grammar course available was for Engineers (go figure)! In the course of time I’ve added a masters degree and an earned doctorate, but I couldn’t have gotten there without going through the pain of figuring out what no one was saying.

It took me a lot of pain and a lot of experimentation to figure out how to be sure my grammar was solid, my punctuation was pure, and my words were well chosen. The key came one day at the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, in the summer of 2002. In that moment, I notice something amazing about music…that suddenly unlocked everything I really needed to know about grammar. We any of us make a connection in our head it is because of the great variety of people and experiences that have been a part of the process up to that point. I’d love to thank them all, but somewhere in my head as I watched the ocean and wrote some thoughts I realized:

MUSIC IS INSTINCTIVE
(WRITING IS TOO)

That’s it! Musical notes are put together in a particular way that matches what our brains can recognize. Our brains are designed, hard-wired, and set up to know the difference between noise and a melody. In fact, it can easily and instantly tell that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is not the same tune as Happy Birthday. Even more amazing it the fact that we don’t have to be able to sing well to notice this difference. In fact, we can make up tunes / songs without knowing anything about music theory or composition. Through a random set of circumstances, I was talking with David Coverdale (Deep Purple / Whitesnake) at a friends house and he told me he couldn’t read music! That doesn’t at all mean he doesn’t understand it.

That’s when it hit me! It is EXACTLY the same with grammar. We know when something is grammatically OK or grammatically bad. The reason is that our brain is designed, hard-wired, and set up to know the difference between what sounds right and what sounds wrong when we hear others speak. We know (even in the south) that “Jimmie and me is done gonna go to the creek today,” isn’t quite right 😉

Next, I started writing in a way that simply sounded OK to me when I read it out loud. Soon I added a simple code I noticed for punctuation— which meant I was writing much better and much easier! Also, I soon discovered (because I’m a little nerdy) that what ‘sounded right’ also matched the grammar books. Soon I was writing for how things sound when read out loud instead of trying to remember the 31 rules for commas and how to avoid the passive voice. Did it work?

Did it ever! This insight led a professor (who studied at Harvard) to comment on my doctoral dissertation (that he didn’t agree with), “I will say that your paper is one of the most well written / correctly written papers I’ve read.” Nice, huh?

Guess what… Following our easy-to-understand method will teach almost anyone from 8 to 88 the most powerful and effective way them to write. It’s something Shakespeare understood (he sure didn’t study grammar), and it’s something you will understand very soon. Not only that, I’m going to show you how to

  • Cure your student’s spelling issues
  • How to come up with what to write about
  • How to happily seek help
  • How to make his writing interesting
  • How to not worry about getting it all right the first time
  • And, a whole host of other things

In fact, in a few minutes you can get started…and best of all…it ABSOLUTELY isn’t like what they teach in school. Someday they may, but sadly teachers think they are supposed to teach kids to write. Here’s the fact:

Teachers are there to cause students to learn…they should NEVER be there to teach them!

If you understand the distinction I just made, then you are clearly ready for the most astonishing approach to writing you’ve ever seen. It is the end result of over $150,000 dollars I’ve spent on education…and the heart of proving the experts wrong that I believe God gave me… to instead pursue what REALLY WORKS.

My greatest evidence is our children, who were all trained with the Lybrand Method in our homeschool (from birth to college). All of the kids are excellent writers. Two of them have finished 2 novels each, and the other two had their papers in college used as examples of how to write by their professors in their other classes. The baby (Brooks, age 17) is finishing a book he wanted to write about How to Love Your Youth Group.

I’m not keeping it a secret. Come join me in developing a generation of fine writers for work, life, and literature. It’s sort of a revolution and I could REALLY use your help. Even our most challenging kids can learn how to put their thoughts, ideas, and stories on paper…which just means a lifetime of purpose and joy for them too!

Blessings,

Dr. Fred Ray Lybrand

 

P.S. Jody (my wife of 31 years) told me that some people couldn’t as easily afford the course, so she asked me to think of a way to change that. I said, “Well, if people who get it and see it work…if they would tell others…that would help with the price.” If I had Bill Gate’s backing I’d give it away! Of course, since everything I’m teaching flies in the face of the current failed educational strategies concerning writing…fat chance this week!

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