Whether it’s the holidays, illness, a new baby, a vacation, a move, or another significant life event, there are days, weeks, and yes, sometimes even months when school work — academics — take a back seat to other life events. That’s normal and necessary. It’s also normal and necessary that we find a way to get…
Are you tired of feeling like a homeschool failure each January? Try Shawna’s tips for using the holidays as a homeschool reset and start the new year off refreshed rather than tired and discouraged. Written by Shawna Wingert of Not the Former Things. The first few years we homeschooled, I used to give up right…
The Best Thing You Can Do to Help a Struggling Reader… I have been homeschooling for ten years now. Over the course of the past decade, there is one area of study that has been the most frustrating, and if I’m honest, the most terrifying for me. Teaching my youngest son to read has been,…
How to Create a Unit Study to Encourage Your Child’s Interests We all want to encourage and help develop our children’s interests, right? We want to see them happy, successful, and well-rounded. That’s really the ultimate goal of homeschooling. Are you trying to help them develop a passion for a future career or just an…
If your budget or outside commitments are keeping you close to home this summer, Bethany has some planning tips for creating a memory-making family staycation. Written by Bethany Ishee of BethanyIshee.com. The world is a homeschool family’s classroom, and, for many, summer is a time to plan family vacations that double as elaborate, fun-filled, educational…
When life gets crazy, we need to identify and embrace our homeschooling freedoms. In the following article, Heather outlines just seven of the many freedoms homeschooling offers. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been homeschooling for two weeks, two years, or two decades. We all tend to get into routines. The daily ebb and flow of…
