Last week I ruffled a few feathers (93 people unsubscribed, y’all) with the idea that teaching from rest isn’t a passive activity. Today, despite the danger to my email list, I am tackling what being faithful looks like. How can we be sure that we are doing our part for restful teaching? In Teaching from…
Mom’s are natural teachers for a language — after all moms teach their kids language all the time. Foreign language can work the same way as a first language — simply start with words and phrases you use everyday and build on one or two at a time. Soon you will know more words in…
I’ve noticed that my attitudes get passed along to my children with pretty much zero effort on my part. When I am happy, things mostly flow along happily. When I worry, their worry amps up. When I am frantic, so are they. When I am calm … well, there’s always an exception to prove the…
Whether you have one child or many, it’s easy in our over-scheduled world to feel like your child must do all the things. Kids in school bring home stacks of flyers each week, urging them to Join the Scouts! Sign up for Soccer! Sing in the Choir! Add an Art Class! Play the Piano! Dream…
It’s official. Anecdotally anyway. Recently, I asked a question on my Facebook page about which homeschooling book moms should absolutely not miss. Overwhelmingly the answer was Sarah Mackenzie’s Teaching From Rest. It’s no secret that I am a fan. And while the enthusiasm for this book doesn’t surprise me (okay, maybe the sheer volume of…
As your kids get older, the idea of homeschooling high school can feel intimidating. Lisa Nehring, head of True North Homeschool Academy, shares her experiences and tips from homeschooling her five children. She also explains how you can make the most out of homeschool high school years and how online homeschooling can be just the…
This is part of our series on homeschooling lots of kids with babies and toddlers in the mix. Be sure to read the rest in the series. I’m not going to lie. Having multiple people in the room all at once is often the hardest part of homeschooling. Harder than choosing curriculum. Harder than keeping…
Welcome to a brand new season of the Your Morning Basket Podcast. We are kicking off the year with an important but fun conversation with the creator of We Choose Virtues, Heather McMillian. I love Heather’s enthusiasm for helping teach kids about virtues. Drawing on her years of experience as a teacher and children’s pastor,…
This post is part of our how to homeschool lots of kids with babies and toddlers series. Be sure to read the rest of the series. Homeschool moms have vivid imaginations. We are able to think of all kinds of wonderful things we’d love for our kids to learn and experience. From classic literature to…
This post is part of our how to homeschool lots of kids with babies and toddlers series. Be sure to read the rest of the series. I remember vainly sifting through the vendor hall at the Great Homeschool Convention searching for something – almost anything – my very social, very dependent-on-me 4 year old daughter…
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