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!
As you consider the events of this homeschool year, ask yourself, “Is it time for a change?” And, as you consider trying a new curriculum, it might also be valuable to consider a few changes in the approach to homeschooling. Here is a question that may help you evaluate whether you need to make
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If you and I could sit across my kitchen table from each other, and you were to say, “I’m just not sure I can keep homeschooling. . . I feel like such a failure. . .”, I would tell you with great empathy that I had felt the exact same
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Believe me, I was ALWAYS on a budget! When we first began our homeschool adventure, my husband was a public school teacher—which meant his salary was very low. . . and I was at home with our kids. But, where there’s a will, there’s a way. We saved up for curriculum (often
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You are facing extraordinary challenges, regardless of how easily your kids are learning their school work. Parenting itself is more demanding, more fraught with difficulties, than ever before. . . and homeschooling adds layers of complexity, stress and labor beyond that. Don’t believe for a moment that this is easy
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In a conversation on FaceBook, one homeschool mom asked me, “How do you tackle subjects that a kid might hate, but they have to take? In our current situation it’s Algebra. I feel like we can barely get through it, let alone make it fun.” That is SUCH an important
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