1. The most important ingredient to a successful homeschool is a confident, peaceful mom. Kids will pick up and emulate the attitude of the leader. The leader is you, and if you are panicked, disheveled, or worried, they will be as well. 2. Because of the above, you must chill out. I don’t care how…
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We all know beginning readers will fall in love with reading if we hand them great books. These great books can’t be too far above their reading level, or they will be frustrated by the mechanics of reading and unable to comprehend and enjoy the story. In the early years of my homeschooling journey I…
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Every few years I see a new organizational idea for homeschoolers sweep the internet. It is a different method every time. By reading many glowing blog reports of trying out the method, each method is presented as a sort of magical solution to all previous homeschool organization problems. However, if everyone’s problems were permanently solved…
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Have you ever thought of doing NaNoWriMo as part of you homeschool curriculum? NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place during November. The goal is to write a rough draft of a novel, to 50,000 words. This breaks down to 1,667 words daily for the month of November. Of course you…
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As the amount of information available to everyone’s fingertips has spread, so has the idea that kids need to learn more stuff. The problem with this is that there is only so much time in a day. Only so much power in the brain for intense sustained attention. Also, there is a real need to…
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Music is food for the heart and soul of the student. It is an essential part of every well-rounded homeschool and you can make it part of yours whether or not you have money for lessons or are musically trained. There are many ways you can incorporate music into your homeschool. I encourage you to…
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One of the greatest things about the modern world we live in is that you don’t need to be rich to acquire knowledge. There is wealth of knowledge at our fingertips, but there is also a mass of excessive and/or low-quality information. It can be quite a maze to get to the pots of free…
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We often jump into homeschooling with two feet and not much else. A few people may have put in long hours of pre-study and know going in exactly how everything is going to proceed. Except, it often does not go according to their well laid plans. Homeschooling, like the rest of life, is full of…
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Food, so many of life’s essential questions can be answered by this one word, and the educational philosophies behind different styles of homeschooling are no different. What you believe about food reveals how you feel about parenting, and educating our children is just a piece of the parenting pie.
