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Why Does Tech Education Matter? Preparing Our Kids for the Challenges of Tomorrow There are so many things our children need to know before they graduate from our homeschools. Is tech really one of them?? Why does tech education matter? Is there a good reason to include subjects such as coding, AI, and robotics in…
Homeschooling allows us to blend our resources, curriculum, and even instructional options! If you’re reading this article, I’ll bet that you have one (or more) children taking one (or more) online classes. Online classes can be great for a number of circumstances. Many homeschooling parents appreciate online instruction because it’s a portable means of consistent…
One of the reasons I chose to homeschool was to allow my children to follow their individual interests and passions as well as to encourage them to grow in their strengths. We learned early that several of them excel at the fine arts. This is one of my weaknesses, except for dance, but I’ll leave…
Mom, meet your new best friend – Circle with Disney. Managing children’s online presence is getting more and more challenging. Most of us have a story about one of our kiddos stumbling onto a website that was inappropriate. And as our children mature, they are online more and more. The internet is the wild west frontier of…
Are you a handwritten recipe and old cookbook kind of gal? Or do you prefer using your mobile tablet or smartphone in the kitchen as you cook? Quite possibly, you enjoy a combination of both. This month I am highlighting one of my favorite mobile apps for meal planning made easy. The Proverbs 31 woman…
Organization. Did your heart just skip a happy beat at the thought of this word? Or do you feel otherwise? I cherish all things related to organization. It is not as if I have it all together by any means! On the contrary, my ADHD brain could not thrive without routines and organization. My brain…
In this final installment I’ll be examining Libib.com and offering some advice on which tool I recommend overall to manage your home library. Let’s start things off with an overview of Libib. Just like Goodreads and LibraryThing, Libib offers users a way to simply catalog their home libraries for free. The two elements that make Libib rise…
Last month I showed you how to use Goodreads to catalog your home library. This month we’ll take a look at LibraryThing–which is a nice alternative to Goodreads if you don’t want to be part of the Amazon ecosystem. First, let’s start with the basics. Here’s what you get when you use LibraryThing: Join the…
As a homeschooler one of the greatest challenges you’ll face doesn’t have anything to do with what curriculum you’ll choose or what homeschooling style you’ll follow. In fact, it’s a problem you’ll have for many years: how to catalog all of those books you buy for homeschooling. One way of keeping track of all those…
