I remember when my husband and I left the hospital with our firstborn daughter. We kept looking over our shoulders expecting someone to come running after us demanding our credentials to be parents. We looked through our discharge paperwork for […]
Have you ever been paralyzed with fear over the thought of homeschooling the wrong way? Is there such a thing as the wrong way? Perhaps you’re afraid of picking the wrong curriculum. Or teaching the wrong subjects. Maybe you won’t […]
I have a tidbit of trivia for you. People are opinionated. Everyone thinks their way is the right way. The only way. Anyone doing it differently is misled, misinformed, or mistaken. Or all three at the same time. In the […]
Let’s talk about homeschool and real life. There are going to be bad homeschool days, sooner rather than later. You wonder what in the world is going on and why you ever thought this (homeschooling) was a good idea. Anyway […]
We’ve schooled through the summer this year. We don’t always do that, but due to a unique set of circumstances, we felt the need to take only a short break after the spring semester and keep going. It makes the […]
Many people debate the definition of homeschool. Is it school at home? Is it school outside of a government building? Is it school at all? I, personally, prefer the definition of homeschool as LifeSchool. We learn as we live. That […]
Every summer we evaluate our homeschooling journey, our goals for our children, and our plans for our next year of school. We think about reasons to homeschool again. The inevitable question is always, “Should we homeschool another year?” Every year our […]
Are you ever afraid that you might be missing something in your homeschool? Do you dream about the perfect homeschool? Do you have the ideal curriculum? How many classical books should your child read for literature? Can they conjugate verbs in a foreign […]
At the end of a school year, I always look back on what has gone right and wrong in our homeschool. I don’t think I’m the only one that seems to remember all the failures, while forgetting all the successes. […]
Change happens constantly. In Texas, our winter joke is if you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes, and it will change. We can have all four seasons in ONE day! But that kind of change is just a […]
