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Balancing the amount of quality family time you have with the amount of outside activities your kids participate in can be tricky. Even just one activity per child can totally eat away most of your evenings! In our home we have one child who is a competitive gymnast and spends 4 week nights plus Sat…
The Sonrise Stable series is the heartwarming, continuing story of an extended homeschooling family as they live, learn, and love together. Mixing adventure, life lessons, and realistic horse experiences, the series is a must for readers who enjoy family values, Christian faith, and, of course, horses! One of Vicki Watson’s purposes in creating this series…
Historical Conquest: The Journey Through Time is an epic card game where players can create personalized societies with key players from history and battle them one against another; anyone, anywhere, anytime. Each card is complete with: fantastic illustrations of people, places, events in history; abilities in the game according to the abilities they had in…
The above phrase is Latin and means, “I will either find a way or make one,” which is a good mantra to have. It is the keep-on-keeping-on of Latin phrases and one I might be able to pronounce correctly in the near future! Why? Let me tell you. In December I wrote a post called Homeschooling…
My last post here at Hip Homeschool Moms was about the Anxiety Over Homeschooling High School. My daughter is currently in eighth grade which has me doing extensive research into what we need to be doing for her upcoming high school years. The 4 years of high school become more critical than most other years…
I know you all read that title with the expectation that I would have some sort of epiphany and clear cut answer for you, with lots to back it up….but I don’t! Instead I have a thought process, lots of talking and researching, and some possible resources. In all the talk you hear around…
We are trying something new with the hope that it will help everyone to find past information and resources that were shared on our Facebook page with more ease. Our new Facebook Community Discussions page here at Hip Homeschool Moms is broken down into a list of categories. If you click on a category it…
During the late summer months there is so much talk of the coming school year here in our area. There is anticipation and bustle of when the teacher assignments will come and who will be in class with whom. The school supply lists are posted in each store and online to ensure each and every…
A Lion and a Whale Can Dance is an interactive story of two unusual friends who find one another on a mystical island far, far away. This read aloud or alone book app is rated for ages 4+, and can be used on the iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone. My six-year-old daughter loves her interactive…
I am sitting in front of my computer today, having waited until the last minute to write my post, and feeling anxious about getting it done. Why? Not so much because it is due today, as I know I will find leeway and grace with the wonderful ladies to whom are waiting patiently for this…
At the beginning of June we brought you our Preliminary Reviews of Kidcoder & Teen Coder- Windows Programming. We are pleased to be back to give your our final reviews as well as a giveaway from the company! The folks over at Homeschool Programming Inc. are offering up for giveaway a first-semester title (Windows Programming)…
I have had the opportunity to review a product that I believe to be very rare. When I first saw an ad for Homeschool Programming I stopped to look because I had never seen a computer programming curriculum for kids. Here are a few things that stood out to me right away: *Only basic familiarity…
