What do your history studies actually produce in your children? Knowledge? Memorized facts? If that’s it, you are missing out on the total power of history to enlighten, enliven, and elevate your child in mind and spirit. This is both possible and necessary, especially if your history studies encompass stories that include the history of people […]
More College Visits
As I posted in my highlights for February post, in addition to the busy-ness of home life and homeschool, we are also in full swing with the process of helping our oldest make a decision regarding where she’ll spend the next several years once she leaves our home. You can see our first college visit here. […]
February ’12 Homeschool Highlights
I took my own advice from my last post and changed the youngest’s daily schedule around. Early results are that I’m far less overwhelmed by the amount of work there is to do when I bring the oldest home from college. The youngest is a little shaky with a mid-course change in her routine–she’s so much […]
5 Considerations when a Homeschool Schedule is Just Paper
Blessed are the flexible, for they’ll never be bent out of shape. At least, that’s what I’ve heard. I pride myself on spending gargantuan amounts of time each summer planning our school days–selecting curriculum, thinking through a workable schedule, ordering my own workload in order to take advantage of peaks and valleys in each child’s […]
Oh, Yeah, About THAT Shirt…
Have you ever seen someone’s outfit, whether a inappropriate choice of clothing, or strangely-colored shoes, or even a hair-do that looks more like a hair-don’t, and you wondered what was the story behind their choice? I have a number of younger friends on my Facebook page. Many are our children’s classmates at the dance center. I also […]