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I love gardening. It can be such a fulfilling way to connect with the natural world. (Plus, with the cost of groceries these days, many of us are becoming more interested in growing our own food!) But the garden can provide more than just food for homeschooling families. It can also provide a great way…
6 Realistic Tips for Tackling Clutter Do you struggle with clutter? I’m willing to bet that most of us with kids and pets don’t have a home that looks like a magazine shoot all the time, even if we try to keep it clean. After all, clean and tidy aren’t always the same thing. Sometimes…
When I think of summer, I think about camping! I remember camping trips with my family when I was growing up. Not only did we enjoy spending time together, but I learned so much on those trips. I never thought of those trips as educational, but as a homeschooling mom, I look back and realize…
Ways to Creatively Repurpose Your Kids’ Arts and Crafts Projects It’s a commonly known fact that homeschool families have lots (and lots and lots…) of books around the house! But other than books, what else do we have lots of? Yep! Arts and crafts projects! Crafting, drawing, and painting are fantastic activities. Most of us…
So you’re making important plans for National Get Organized Week, right? At this moment you are eagerly anticipating the arrival of October 4-10 so you can spend every waking moment of that joyous week reorganizing jumbled closets and straightening those messy homeschooling materials. Oh, what a blissful week it is sure to be! Okay,…
For the first time in their lives two dozen recently rescued ducks get their first taste of life in a pond. Woodstock Farm Sanctuary had been trying to rescue these birds for over a year! They had been living for years with a hoarder who had them in pens without adequate access to water or…
Chores (or Life Skills or whatever more pleasant name you wish to give to common household tasks) don’t generally rank up there at the top when we start listing school subjects we consider most important. Plenty of other things usually take priority, and yet, while we’re so absorbed in teaching our kids the “important stuff,” I’m…
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…
Don’t you wish that once you cleaned your home it would just stay clean? It’s really some cruel joke that we have to contend not just with endless rounds of dishes and laundry, but with dust that just won’t stay away. Dusting again?? #AintNobodyGotTimeFoDat! Dust is exactly what lead me on my journey to research…
One of the biggest problems that homeschooling families face is how to keep the house clean. Living in a space constantly, particularly with little kids around, makes it a challenge to keep things clean. We have struggled in this area in the past, but along the way, we’ve found some action steps that have allowed…
Because Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd, hopefully more people are thinking about how they can better preserve the quality of life we live on earth by taking care of the environment. If you are feeling the urge, then here are some tips you can share with your children to help them learn…
Got a big mess of art stuff and not sure how to go about getting from disaster to sanity? I used these five steps to organize homeschool art supplies in my very small living space. I hope they can help you too! Looking for resources on how to teach art in your homeschool, art project ideas or…
