Our pastor once preached a series of messages from a central theme: If you can change your mind, you can change your world. The sermons were rich, packed with thought-provoking and life-changing ideas. Yet, the premise was simple. So much of the gap between mediocrity and success—in any aspect of our lives—is a result of […]
5 Steps Toward the Balancing Act
Maybe you are brand new to this whole homeschooling “thing” and on many days, you find yourself totally frustrated that you no longer have time for little else besides lesson plans, reading lists, and a whole new set of forums and networks. Perhaps this is not your first barbecue, but you cannot figure out why […]
4 Must Haves for High School
I love to shop in August. As a parent who homeschools, I am tickled, for lack of a better word, by the marketing of everything as a “back to school” necessity. Towels, computers, small appliances, health and beauty items — a student’s trip back to school has to be the most marketed event right after Christmas and […]
The Midwest College Road Trip
There are places that are gorgeous, and places where the fit is not so great. Then there are places that you visit and you see home. Home for your child, and peace for your mind as a parent. If our son had his way, he’d be Mikhail Baryshnikov, complete with the home in Russia. If […]
Do You Love to Homeschool?
Do you love to homeschool? With scores of parents making plans to pull their children from traditional school systems as I write, and others who are currently deciding never to put their child into that same system, it might seem like an ill-chosen time to “voice” those frustrations that no one blogs about—much. Yet, if […]