Telling Your Family’s Stories: A Group Writing Experience Our family has a language arts project this year – a group project, where we’re all contributing. I’m loving it, the kids are loving it, we’re learning a lot, and we’re building our family’s identity. We’re telling stories. Our stories. Little snippets…
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The Best Thing You Can Do to Help a Struggling Reader
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…
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Weekly Homeschool Resources Wrap Up – Skipping the Birthday Party
Happy Friday, Y’all! How was your week? What fun things did you guys do this week? Did you try any of the experiments or activities I posted last week? Please share with me which ones and what you thought of them!! This week my hubby had a birthday and honestly,…
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10 Awesome Media Portrayals of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers
Picture this: homeschoolers in the media. Where does your brain go? Does it immediately jump to the super-strict family that never leaves the house? How about the totally anti-social geniuses next door? The uber-religious-conspiracy-theorist family? As members of the homeschooling community, we all know about these overly-done, long-perpetuated media stereotypes,…
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Gratitude Challenge: 30 Days of Thankfulness
I recently read an article about a guy who embarked on a journey of gratitude. Yes, I just read it last week, but no, I don’t remember all the details (I hope I have at least one kid willing to take care of me when I’m old because my poor…
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