Reading is the number one skill that will boost a child’s creativity and learning potential. Starting a daily habit of reading should rank right up there with brushing their teeth on the habits list.
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Homeschool Planning With the End In Mind
09/04/2023
Every homeschool mom starts the year with a daydream about how perfect the year will be after we’ve adjusted for all the contrarian situations that happened last year. The problem is that there will be a whole new set of […]
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 […]
Homeschool Myth: There is ONE “Right” Way
07/14/2020
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 […]
6 Ways to Start the Homeschool Year
07/10/2020
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 […]
3 Reasons to Homeschool and 3 Reasons to Not
07/05/2020
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 […]
The Perfect Homeschool Myth
05/29/2020
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 […]