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  The Ultimate Guide to My Book House for Homeschoolers

  Gather in homeschool circles for very long and you will come across mention of My Book House. Usually, the questions about this beloved set of books are either “Are they worth the cost?” or  “How do I use them in the homeschool once I have them?” I am going to come right out and say that I…

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  How to Use Your Happy Planner to Organize Your Homeschool

  I was never going to be one of those people. You know the ones, those Happy Planner people. What was that thing anyway? Three big boxes for each day? What would I ever use that for? No lines, no nicely divided subject areas for my homeschool planner. The thing was useless as far as I…

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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…

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  Making a year-round homeschool schedule work for you

  Let’s start with a misconception about year-round homeschooling. It is typically NOT homeschooling all the time. Just because we are year-round homeschoolers that doesn’t mean we are doing more school than your average students. Traditional American school schedules begin in late August, take a couple of weeks off in December, and continue through the end…

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  Your words aren’t as helpful as you think they are

  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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  How You Are Reading All Wrong

  Apparently I have been reading all wrong my entire life. The past three weeks have been a whirlwind of learning for me. A life-changing whirlwind. I went from a someone who barely had enough attention span to read a regency romance in the bathtub to this reading list: For the Children’s Sake Norms and Nobility The…

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  How to Make your Homeschool Plan Not Feel Like a Big Guess

  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…

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  How to homeschool and still get (most) things done | Proactive Homeschooling

  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…

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  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…

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  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…