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Looking back on some things I wish I had done better on this homeschool journey, documenting it would be pretty high on the list. We have been homeschooling for eight years and have had so many fun and crazy adventures over those years. I cannot tell you how many times we would be somewhere and…
The Fruit of the Spirit is awesome. I love teaching it to my children. For this lesson, I picked the first three on the list found at Galatians 5:22 and 23. We read the passage and talked about the first three: love, joy, and peace. We spoke about examples for each and how we can…
This article is part of a series in which I attempt to answer questions collected for me from the Hip Homeschool Moms Community, about what it was like to grow up homeschooled. The first question that I want to answer is this one: “What is your favorite memory of being homeschooled?” In a popular young…
The holidays are coming. Is your homeschool ready? The turkey, the traveling, the everything busy, bright and burning (if you’re in my kitchen) are weeks away; is your homeschool ready for this action? ‘Tis the season for squeezing in the math during cooking and the reading on the road; and there’s nothing wrong with that. If you’re nervous…
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…
Apparently we were being watched. We were in a new place and didn’t know many people, so we decided to wander around town. The fragrance from the street lured me into a trendy coffee shop. Stranger-watching amused us, but the fireplace kept us there on this January day. I had finished my non-fat cappuccino. The…
Do you have those moments when you say to yourself, “What was I thinking?” Today all of my carefully laid plans went straight into the circular file. My daughter fought me tooth and nail over her math lesson, drawing angular doodles and filling in all the ‘holes’ in the 9’s and 6’s and 4’s on…
I frequently hear moms sharing how they are frustrated with homeschooling. I totally get it. We have been doing this for 20 years so far (eight kids), and I’m not going to lie. It can be HARD. Often, you finally find a good groove and before you know it, things are bumpy again. Even downright…
“Ooo, here is an article about homeschooling!” Sandra reaches for her glasses. They are a lovely floral vintage pair. She puts them on the end of her nose. She reads the first few lines of the article. Her face lights up, and she smiles and exclaims, “That’s exactly what I was thinking!” You see, what…
Have you heard of “deschooling”? If you are one of the growing number of families choosing to take your children out of public or private school in order to homeschool, you may have heard it said that you should consider deschooling before you begin homeschooling. But what is deschooling? What is deschooling? Deschooling has…
A few weeks ago, we wrapped up our seventh year of homeschooling. With a bang. And a sigh. And a, I’m SOOO glad to have another year filed in the books! As much as I love being a homeschooling mom, there are those years when it just feels like a flop. Like I flopped. Failed. Made a really,…
When I first began homeschooling it was for one basic reason: I felt called by God to bring our daughter home. She had a newly diagnosed vision problem which was affecting her ability to read. Though I was happy with her private school at the time and I knew the teachers would try their best,…
