Tips for parents who have suddenly found themselves trying to finish the public school year at home.
If your grandchildren are being homeschooled, you may have concerns. Especially, if you haven’t had any experience with homeschooling and the only information you have is from the widely-spread myths. As a retired homeschool mom, I’ve remained connected with homeschooling families, and started blogging, partly, to encourage them. I’ve written a lot of posts for …
When I was expecting our first child, I read a lot of books to prepare myself for the new world of parenting. I didn’t know much of anything about taking care of babies and raising children, so I wanted to learn as much as I could. Little did I know that parenting had different seasons, …
When we first started homeschooling, I was full of anxiety and self-doubt, but as time passed I relaxed and started to enjoy the incredible freedoms that it had to offer. I truly treasured them and am so thankful that we were able to spend more time with our kids during their fleeting childhood years. At a …
Father’s Day is a special occasion for honoring fathers. All fathers are worthy of respect and appreciation for the things they do for their family, but I wanted to narrow my focus to the homeschool father. Homeschooling isn’t a popular choice to make or an easy road to navigate, and although it’s a blessing, it …
What about socialization? I, too, asked that question when I began investigating homeschooling. Reading what homeschool veterans had to say about it really helped me to see socialization from a different point of view. Since then, I’ve helped many other parents get started in homeschooling and I can tell you that almost every one of …
December is such a busy month with so much to do! When our kids were younger we took a break from our usual curriculum and did things related to the holidays. Kids are always so excited and restless during that time, anyway. Just not fighting that battle reduced a lot of stress. Letting the kids …
During our early stages of homeschooling I did a lot of reading to learn about approaches, learning styles, and such, to create a vision for our homeschool. Somewhere along the way I came across “The Animal School,” a fable that was originally written in 1940 by George Reavis, the Superintendent of Public Schools in Cincinnati, …
When I retired as Homeschool Teacher, I started blogging because I enjoyed writing and wanted to learn more about using the internet. I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, but that was right before the internet came to be, so my education didn’t include anything about it. I haven’t always enjoyed writing, either. I went to …
Can I really do this? What if the naysayers are right? If you’re new to homeschooling, then you probably have these anxieties and many more. I know how you feel because I spent fourteen years homeschooling my two children, and all along the way I had anxieties and doubts. Now that I’ve reached the end of …