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What Seven Years of Boot Camp Taught Us About Homeschooling
In this episode of the Homeschool Better Together podcast, I sit down with Dawn Garrett, our customer service guru, to reflect on the lessons we’ve learned over seven years of running the Homeschool Consistency Boot Camp. We talk about how consistency—not perfection—can transform your homeschool and why sticking with even a “minimum viable day” can…
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Why You Need to Stop Buying Homeschool Planners
Hey, I get it. I love planners myself. I have the billion colored pens, disc-bound pages, bullet journals, stickers, washi — all of it. Planners are just plain fun. And it is easy to get caught up in the fun of making a homeschool planner. It’s also easy to look for a solution to your…
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…
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…
Five Steps to a Fabulous Summer Plan
Ah summer. Swimming pools, ice cream, and hours free to get bored do what you want. I loved summer because our days are more relaxed. I love a break from the structured school time and the feeling of needing to get a litany of school work accomplished each day. But if I am not careful…
How to Feel Less Busy Even When You Can’t Be
There’s a common misconception by many non-homeschoolers that what homeschoolers do all day is stay tucked inside their houses reading classical literature and practicing for the National Spelling Bee. This misconception feeds into the whole socialization myth that continues to plague every homeschool mom who ever lived. Typically the reality is much, much different than…
Dear Self: Why you stink at homeschool consistency
Dear Self, I am here today with some tough love. Because I do love you and I know this homeschooling your kids thing is important to you. And yet, you struggle with homeschool consistency. Often. So someone has to point out the elephant in the room before all the peanuts are gone and you are left…
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…
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…
Homeschooling is NOT your hobby
I hope I convinced you that homeschool mamas need hobbies. I convinced myself. Now I’m going to say something somewhat controversial. I think your hobby should be something for you. I want to encourage you to choose something that isn’t just supportive of your vocation as a Homeschool Mom. I would love to see us…
Help your Kids Memorize Anything
Memory work is a big part of what we do around here. And while for some people, memory work would suggest feelings of drudgery and drill and kill, the reality couldn’t be farther from that. We love our memory work and have fun with it. The kids get great satisfaction in learning a new poem…
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