Be proactive, not reactive You know you are going to have good days and bad days. We’ve been talking the past couple of weeks about how we might be the ones sabotaging our homeschools. We also discussed the importance of having our attitudes ordered rightly because someone might be watching. But what does this look…
When my daughter was two years old, she had the cutest habit of picking up her toy cell phone, holding it to her ear, and making a noise somewhere between a growl and a disgusted sigh. “Look,” we would laugh. “Where did she learn that?” Until one day I was driving down a stretch of…
The morning light was thin, blue, and cold. It was cozy under my blanket though as I sipped my coffee. I had an edifying book in my lap — who am I kidding — I was scrolling Facebook on my phone. One kid was asleep, two were upstairs watching “educational” cartoons, and frankly, I was…
Somehow over the years I have become the pie cook for our family holiday gatherings. I would like to think it is because I make the best pies. More likely it is because my mom thinks there are always other deserts around if I happen to ruin the pies. If I ruined the cornbread dressing?…
This activity is part of my Learn to Write Numbers printable packs. Be sure to click over to get all the fun printables and ideas. I’ve got two early learners here. One is great, albeit somewhat shaky-handed, with writing numbers — just seemed to learn to write them naturally. The other has struggled with them for…
When my family started doing Morning Time, my kids were little and it wasn’t quite the homeschool buzzword it is now. There was very little Morning Time pressure in those days — we just liked learning together. Now, it seems that everywhere you turn, people are talking about all the riches they are doing in…
I have never been very flexible — physically or otherwise. I have always envied those people able to do splits (never done one) or be laissez faire about missing deadlines (never missed one in my yearbook adviser days). Then I became a homeschool mom. You can read or listen to this post. A homeschooling day is…
Last week, I told you all about Laura and how her homeschool plan actually created more stress in her life than it did peace. It happens. A lot. This week I am back, as promised, to give you four important keys you can use to create a plan that doesn’t feel like a guess, but…
Laura wanted to do this homeschool thing just right. She had struggled in the past, but this year was going to be different. Her homeschool planning was going to be perfect. So she started by buying a fresh, new homeschool planner. You know the kind. It had months of lesson plan grids that started in…
I know you mean well. When I published my post on homeschool consistency I got quite a few responses. There were people who thanked me for writing the post, talking about how much it helped them (which was my intent). There were a few who condemned the need for me to write the post in…
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