Welcome to my homeschool blog, which offers insights into loving learning, loving your family, loving history, loving homeschooling, and enjoying your life! With your cup of coffee in hand, take a break to laugh with me, to have your heart refreshed, to be reminded of how cool your kids really are, and to consider the amazing adventure of being a homeschool mom. AND, if you are interested in the History Revealed curriculum, be sure to check out my Teaching Tips!
What does it mean to have “satisfaction” when we learn? To answer, let me introduce you to one of my former mentors, the brilliant international educator with Youth With A Mission, Rosalie Pedder. When Rosalie walked into a classroom, you never knew what would happen. She was hilarious, direct, and always
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Is it legitimate for our kids to enjoy learning? I know, I know. You’re surprised that I would even ask. I mean, isn’t it obvious that little kids do better when learning is fun? But here’s the real question: Is it legitimate for our high school kids to enjoy learning??
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In the last post, we looked at the first Demystifier—children are always learning. Today, we’ll take that a step further. Demystifier #2: It’s not really learning until it changes you. Learning changes you. Getting it right on the test doesn’t mean you have learned it. I took a test to
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In our quest to educate our children, sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees. You know what I mean. There you are, trying to manueuver three children (or 1 or 6 or 12) through math (or lit or science or history), and it doesn’t look anything like school.
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You know the old adage, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks?” Well, thank heavens, I’m not a dog. Though this tired cliché is often used to describe what we can NOT do, I’m here to tell you that there are specific pathways we can walk in order to
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