My superhero forwarded this to me, and wherever you are on your homeschooling journey, I pray that it encourages you as well. Families keep homeschooling despite tough times – USATODAY.com
Lost History, Good Books, and Education with Milton Bradley
Recently, I’ve had several conversations with moms who are “formally” homeschooling, whatever that means, after working with their smaller children for a number of years. Inevitably, the conversation floats to teaching/learning styles—not the style of the children, but the style of the mom. We won’t get too far in instructing our children without some […]
A Bird’s Eye Look at Next Year
I have a number of pictures that I want to post–the dinosaur lapbook for the youngest that became a scrapbooking project for Mom (YIKES!), a picture of her "dinosaur chow," more of the older two’s history pages, including their recent interpretation of Jacob Lawrence’s (Harlem Renaissance artist) artwork series. You’d think with 1 desktop and 2 laptops in […]
A Mom and a Tutor are not Equal
It’s been an uneventful week—as our weeks go—thus far, and I’m almost at a quandary with what to do with my extra five minutes (LOL). Our son’s respiratory system couldn’t keep up with the 40-to-70-degree shifts in the weather, so I wanted to keep him home from dance, but by Tuesday, he was feeling […]
On Birthdays, Indulgences, and Praying in a Circle
It’s about 4 in the morning and I couldn’t sleep, even after going through my circle of prayer—the circle that normally finds me snoring before I get past our community. I think I’ve posted the circle of prayer before, but it’s worth a repeat. I learned it as a middle-of-the-night-and-I-can’t-get-to-sleep-so-I’ll-fight-the-devil technique: 1) I pray for me 2) […]