I’ve been pondering the ways, over the years, that I’ve found “alone time” while in the midst of homeschooling my three kids. I get energy when I am alone, so finding alone moments is essential to my daily mental health. It hasn’t always been easy to find alone time while homeschooling, but I’ve found ways
Read MoreYou know how when you fly on an airplane, you are instructed to, in case of emergency, take care of your own oxygen mask before helping your child? This is self care at it’s most basic. We cannot help others if we are not breathing. Taking care of myself first before homeschooling is as important as getting
Read MoreIt’s one thing to be depressed during a bitterly cold winter with record low temperatures. I’m pretty sure I was not the only one going a bit stir crazy this winter! But it’s another thing to feel down for days on end when the sun is shining and the weather ideal, when getting out of the
Read MoreI realize that my children are young, but I decided we needed to learn about his grandparents and great-grandparents who served in the armed forces today. Understanding the service given by veterans helps us understand the freedom we truly enjoy came at a cost.
Read MoreEvery parent who decides to homeschool comes to that conclusion for a number of different reasons. I have in the past mentioned that I never thought I’d be a homeschooling parent. I thought I could not do it. Now I’ve come to see that I can homeschool. I found the confidence to homeschool because learning and
Read MoreIt is an unfortunate truth that we have to teach our kids about the horrors of the world, such as what happened in New York City on September 11, 2001. Doing so, however, should be a concept learned little by little, line upon line, as they grow. Here are some sensible ways to teach about
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