As you begin reading this, check in with your own heart. Are you already feeling a bit defensive (“That’s a CRAZY idea! No one would know grammar if learning had to be fun!!”)? Or, perhaps a bit guilty (“Oh, NO! She’s going to tell me I’ve been doing this wrong!”)?

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When it comes to homeschooling, are we teaching our kids or are we helping them learn? I’d never really thought about the difference until I took my high school daughter to her first violin lesson with a new teacher, but the lesson I learned from Mr. Peacock completely reshaped my

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Enough is enough, as the saying goes—and as these examples indicate: A homemade birthday cake is delicious, unless you eat the whole thing in one sitting. A hot bath is lovely, unless the water overflows the tub and drips through the floorboards to ruin the room below. A scenic drive

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Here’s a question: Do you feel like you’re responsible for teaching your children EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO KNOW? If you think the answer is, “Yes,” then, break out the books on everything from abacus to zoology, because you have just taken on the Mt. Everest of homeschooling. And, inform your

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How do we turn the academic “facts” into something our children can actually understand? What makes those facts become something usable, practical, memorable? When we discover the difference between teaching “facts” and giving our children meaningful interaction with those facts, their curiosity—and our homeschooling—will flourish! But how do we do

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