For 25 years I was a stay-at-home mother of seven children (now: son/33, daughter/31, son/29, son/27, son/25, son/21, son/19), five by birth and two by adoption. We’ve been a home educating family since 1992, so all of my children have learned at home from the beginning. I live in a household of creative, bright, intense, high-maintenance, interesting children. I’ve learned a lot and it’s my passion to share that with others. Feel free to contact me!
In 2017, I realized my dream of opening a learning center based on the homeschooling philosophies that worked so well for my children and that promote creativity in learning. You can learn more about that here!
To learn more about my professional development side, here is the journey I have been blessed to experience written up below:
Cindy Gaddis, Author, Owner/Creative Learning Center
Cindy has been immersed in the creative education world for almost 30 years. Opening the Creative Learning Center of Lexington, LLC, three years ago is the culmination of her life’s work to offer affordable creative educational alternatives to families wanting to opt out of public and private education institutions. Her experiences that led her here include:
- Home educating her seven creative children for the past 30 years.
- Publishing in Home Education Magazine, Growing Without Schooling and finally offering her own successful book, The Right Side of Normal: Understanding and Honoring the Natural Learning Path for Right-Brained Children (endorsed by top educational professionals).
- Producing original educational articles on her personal blog, Applestars, from 2006-2013, on the group block, Life Without School from 2006-2009, and on her own website, The Right Side of Normal since 2012 to current.
- Providing consultation services particularly surrounding the topic of strengths-based education, creative learners, and natural learning since 2013.
- Creating and facilitating two active yahoo groups (aut-home-fam in 1999 and homeschoolingcreatively in 2006) until we phased over to FB groups.
- Offering a variety of conference workshop topics as a popular speaker every year since 2000, attending three to five a year. Previous to this, participating at a state education conference as a presenter in 1997, co-hosting the creation of a local conference in 1997-98, and appearing on television and radio in the same years. Here is access to my most popular workshop that was presented at an on-line conference.
- Organizing and orchestrating many early homeschooling support groups between the years of 1992 and 1998.
- Extensively researching and acquiring knowledge in the areas of right-brained (creative) learning, homeschooling, autism, foster adoption, bipolar, emotional intelligence, gentle parenting, learning disabilities, unschooling, giftedness, parenting teens, and so much more!
To learn more about Cindy’s Christian values and experience, go here.
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