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Simplify Language Arts With Books Your Whole Family Will Love
Feeling overwhelmed with language arts education in your homeschool? Join hosts Pam Barnhill, Meg Angelino, and Laney Homan, in episode nine of Homeschool Better Together, as they discuss how literature-based learning can revolutionize language arts education for your family. Discover the transformative power of integrating grammar, writing style, literary analysis, and vocabulary activities through high-quality…
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The Hack That Will Simplify Your Homeschool For Good
Chaos is not my thing. Not that anyone really likes it, but some most folks roll with the punches better than I do. The kids are yelling. The dog is tracking mud through the kitchen while he yips incessantly at said children. A pot is boiling over on the stove. And in the midst of this, I am supposed…
Seven summer ideas for a better homeschool year
Ah, summer. The time for swimming pools, cookouts, camp, and getting your house in order. Yep. I said that last one. It is tempting to shut down during the summer and only focus on fun (actually, it is really good to do quite a bit of that) but summer is also a great time to…
Five Things Every New Homeschool Mom MUST Know
I see it time and time again. Desperate pleas for help from new homeschool moms come across the feed of our local homeschool group. “I am pulling my son out of second grade tomorrow, and I don’t know where to start.” “We are thinking about homeschooling our kids in the fall, and I need to…
The sad truth: teaching from rest is not passive
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…
Are we measuring homeschool planning success wrong?
We tend to have a lot of philosophical military conversations around here. Things like the ethics and value of counterinsurgency (See Consider This by Karen Glass to know why we got off on that tangent one day.) So recently I asked the husband (long-time National Guard officer) what he thought about this quote from Dwight…
It’s time for the checklist homeschool moms to stop apologizing
My kids piled out of the mini-van and chatted happily, heading in the door of the donut shop. It was hot — almost 100 degrees on this mid-July day. But it was the first day of school and that means donuts. This was not some spontaneous decision made in the moment, but instead, a planned…
Fun vs. Joy in Homeschooling
I have totally given up on the idea that learning must be made fun for the student. It was an idea that ruled the first two years of our homeschooling and quite frankly, I’m a little bitter about it now. I feel like in many ways I have short-changed my children and their abilities, because…
The Beauty of Us-Schooling is Us
You may have noticed that the blog has been a bit quiet. Yeah, sorry about that, but we’ve had quite a bit going on. Big life-changing things. No worries. Not bad things at all, but challenging things that I am really not much at liberty to discuss here (sorry), but I can say that these…
The 10 Best Things You’re Not Doing for Your Homeschool
If we’re really being honest with each other, as much as we may love it, the internet can be a big ol’ time suck. We turn to the online world with a desire to make our homeschool better, but often the best gets lost amidst all of the good, not-so-good, or just plain distracting ideas….
How three lists can save your homeschool… and your sanity
I got an email this morning that almost made me break out into hives. It was from a popular homeschool planning company that was touting their ready-made homeschool plans. Now having done this homeschool mentor thing for a number of years I know that people really want plans that are already made — after all…
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