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This week in the United States of America, we celebrated Independence Day. The holiday is an important one to us, as we reflect and remember the cost of our society and culture. As I reflected on that, I realized that the homeschooling community, as a subculture, has also declared independence, albeit without official document….
For many parents, homeschooling is an amazing solution to public school woes or funding issues with private schooling. Many home schooled children enjoy the slower pace and increased time with family that this option affords. But what happens when the home school environment becomes such an uphill struggle, that it’s too depressing and difficult to…
Hi! My name is Jenny Buttler, and {{brace yourselves}} I don’t homeschool. Now, before you shooo me on off, let me reassure you that I would if I could. Huh? It’s not too late you say? I know. But I’m not gonna. And I’m not here to convince you that you shouldn’t either. In fact… I’m here…
We just finished our second year of homeschooling, and are currently on break, but we are only take a breather long enough to give me a chance to get my planning going. We are already bored. I wanted to share with you how I plan for the new school year, and hopefully, give you a…
I always knew that when the day finally came for me to start a family (and it took me a long time to get there) that I would be a stay at home mom. I really had no doubts in my mind about it. If I was going to have kids, then I was going…
“Our unalterable resolution should be to be free.” ~Samuel Adams We’re heading into a three-day weekend! Memorial Day was set aside as a federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorated U.S. soldiers who died in military service, and was first enacted to honor Union and Confederate…
For the first 20+ years of my life I thought homeschoolers were weird. I knew one boy who was homeschooled growing up, and I thought he was…different {in retrospect, I realize it was his parents who were odd, but that is a story for another day}. In my mind, they didn’t get to do things…
“Somewhere, somehow, you too pour out value, a costly sacrifice. And those around…may not assign importance. They do not understand what Jesus sees clearly :: a woman of substance, offering gifts of significance.” ~ from {to do a beautiful thing} :: part one of a series I remember the first moves towards choosing homeschooling for…
Whew – boy, this homeschooling stuff is easy, were my thoughts as I ordered my school-in-a-box, workbook based curriculum, for our first year of homeschooling. You can imagine my surprise when my intensely artistic and imaginative five-year-old son was not impressed with the new supplies. I remember distinctly being very shocked that he didn’t like…
Almost a hundred years ago, Mark Twain wrote, “The human race has only one really affective weapon and that is laughter.” I think he was onto something. Laughter brings us together. It encourages, breathes life, strengthens bonds. It brings light to darkness and smooths rough edges. And I believe it’s true – a family who…
“I’m so overwhelmed that I don’t even know where to start!!” That’s what I said to my husband at the beginning of our homeschool year. I was planning our curriculum for the year. Doing that for 6 children is no easy task! Do you ever get that sick feeling when it comes to actually sitting…
Do you skimp on geography in your homeschooling? Kids get some geography in their history studies and it’s easy to put it on the back burner when you’ve got math, language arts and science to teach. I happen to love geography and have discovered some excellent programs this year that not only teach world geography,…
