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Hooray, it’s summer! That probably means you’ll have more downtime and less (or no) school work for a while. It may also mean your kids (and maybe you, too!) will have more time for snacking and might be tempted to fall into unhealthy eating habits. Sometimes we moms simply lose the energy and patience needed…
19 Upstream is a Christian T-shirt company that goes a step further by including a high quality Bible reference card that ties into the theme of each shirt, and refers you to the related Bible study on their website. They also have a blog where they post about Bible reading, verses and even some stories…
If you plan to homeschool a special needs child, you would do well to plan ahead: Plan ahead of time to stop dead in your tracks if whatever curriculum you purchased at the convention is obviously not working. Plan ahead of time to regroup and revive if your plan fails. Plan ahead of time to…
Although you might not have guessed it when you saw that fun graphic above, today’s post tackles one of the toughest subjects for the homeschool parent (drum roll please): …. high school math. I’m not simply talking about arithmetic or elementary number concepts but the real, nuts and bolts, algebraic and abstract concepts that constitute…
As our culture becomes more and more “screen bound,” our kids are inundated with flashing facts, opinions and graphics. Their ability to evaluate this input and generate their own unique ideas will be valuable to them in life. For this, they must develop an ability to think creatively, “outside the box.” Most curricula fall short…
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!” There have been many times in my life that I have wanted the name and number of the moron that came up with this false statement! The fact is, bones generally heal, even if they need plates and pins to do so….
Picture it: New Jersey, summer, 2012. A group of adorable, if small, suntanned children seated at their astonishingly gorgeous mother’s sandaled feet, listening attentively as she reads to them from their well-rounded selection of children’s literature classics. They’ve just been to the library and have a fresh supply. In the morning, they ate their healthy…
Today’s post is a little pep talk from me to you. We all need a pep talk from time to time. And as a homeschool Mom, I know that I need those little pep talks sometimes because I worry about life. I also worry about school. I worry about the state of the world and…
I have a secret wish to invade multiple homes of other homeschool moms and see what they do for this and that. I love talking to other moms to find out how they organize and where they put their graded papers and staplers and pencils and such. So many of us are constantly trying new…
This school year, both of my children are in the middle school years – one is at the end and the other is just starting out, and it made me start thinking – the middle of what? The name is really so appropriate. They are no longer heavily influenced by mom. They have their own…
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Welcome to Thursday with the Hip Homeschool Moms!! Come check out . . . Giveaway Day! Bloggers & Giveaway Hosts: Come on in and link up those awesome giveaways homeschool moms would love to enter! Homeschool Moms: Have fun entering all the great giveaways listed here this week! If you are linking up a giveaway,…
