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Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! Thank you for linking up with us on our Hip Homeschool Hop! We’re glad to have you. And if you’re here to take a look around and find some fun topics, good information, ideas, or support, we’re glad to have you too! But first we hope you’ll take a…
My 13-year-old son and I enjoy doing unit studies. As we read through whatever book we’re currently working on, we do crafts that go along with it. We recently read a book that mentioned a mermaid painting on the wall, and it reminded me of a stained glass window. That caused me to remember a…
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I have been fascinated with the concept of the 10-item wardrobe for a while now. If you haven’t heard of it, the idea is that you winnow down your clothing stash until you have a base of ten (yes, you read that right) items which you can mix and match for almost all of your sartorial…
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Moms are busy. And it’s often on our busiest days that our houses get totally destroyed! Then our husbands come home from work and think, “What has she done all day?” without realizing how much effort it takes to just keep moving forward let alone get housework done. This made me think about what I…
Thanksgiving is upon us and I have to tell you, the older I get, the more grateful I am for the ordinary, everyday, simple little pleasures of life! It seems just maybe our country has become comfortable, lulled even, with the belief that things are and probably always will be pretty good for us. We…
We love to share books and resources with our readers–especially those that we truly enjoy and know will encourage and help equip you to do your best as you homeschool your children. This book is one of those resources! Three moms on the Hip Homeschool Moms team were given the chance to read and review…
Welcome to the Hip Homeschool Hop! Brenda, HHM team member who blogs at Schooling a Monkey, chose Christmas Play-doh Favours as her favorite post from last week’s HOP. And if you look at these cute ideas, we think you’ll love them too! HHM team member Tanya blogs at The Natural Homeschool. She chose…
I grew up deep in homeschooling territory. My father was a lawyer for Home School Legal Defense Association, and my mother was a nationally-recognized speaker at homeschool conferences who also designed a humanities curriculum. Not only was I homeschooled all the way through high school (with a few private school classes on the side), but…
Do you wonder if there’s a curriculum that might be a better fit for your family than what you’re currently using? Or are you considering homeschooling but you’re not sure what curriculum to even try? There are so very many kinds of curriculum and homeschooling methods/philosophies out there: unit studies, textbooks, delight directed, Classical, unschooling…and…
In the United States alone, there are nearly 600,000 hysterectomies completed annually. There are many more hundreds of thousands performed around the world. Reasons for having the procedure range from pain, heavy menses (periods), fibroids, cysts, some infections, cancer, etc. This isn’t an article to debate whether or not hysterectomies are the right choice. Typically, there is a…
