The Best Online Homeschool Planners You work hard to homeschool your children. Each day you make a plan and work hard to teach and guide your children in their learning. But when life doesn’t go as planned and you have to forget your plans for a day, a week, a month, it’s easy to…
If any of you are like me, you find it easy to get caught up in the beautiful chaos of homeschooling. Sometimes you even feel that there’s not even enough time to breathe., and the chaos doesn’t seem all that beautiful. The month of December gave my children and I a chance to slow down…
Homeschooling Basics for Beginners Sometimes homeschooling gives you the greatest joy but it also provides your biggest struggle.. It overwhelms you, and it’s difficult to find the basics of where to even start. Every day you stay at home with your children, seemingly oblivious to the world outside the walls of your home. The entire…
Sometimes I get frustrated because I don’t feel as if I am contributing anything to my family. (And by anything I mean money). I am busy from before the sun comes up until well after dark trying to make everything run smoothly for my family. I am the housekeeper, teacher, chaffeur, organizational expert, cook, mama,…
One of my favorite benefits of homeschooling has been all those little teachable moments that come along in the course of every day. Learning can happen at any time, and it can be fun! The important thing is to watch out for those moments, because learning happens naturally in those times. A while back I…
There are actually days when I want to quit homeschooling. I seriously consider sending my kids to school just so that I can have a day to myself. There are very few days that my kids don’t ask me for a day off from our schoolwork. Most of those days I would love to tell them…
I am very much a list person. I LOVE lists. In fact, there was a time when I actually made a list of chores that I needed to get done every day. Some people would think that it was like putting handcuffs on, but for me, it was freeing. I could choose or not to…
