For many home educators who follow the public school calendar, those lazy days of summer are no longer lazy. Like me, you might be starting to research curriculum, to develop reading lists, and to plan the semester or yearly calendar. For many will-be home educators, this time might be filled with trepidation and angst—can our […]
Helping Your Child Deal with Disappointments
“So, where are you going?” If you have a child in your life who graduated this year (or any other year, for that matter), you have heard this question at least once, if not one hundred times. For some kids, the answer is an assured trip to x college in y city. For others, the answer might be a […]
Curriculum Thoughts for the 2014-2015 School Year
Following the end of our regular school year in May, I deliberately took off from all the lesson plans, curriculum perusal, and gathering activities associated with the new school year such that I can breathe for a moment. And that’s a good thing, given that we have struggled to execute even the most minimal plan […]
The Best Laid (Summer) Plans of Mice and Men
The plan was simple. We would do what we do every year–a page of math and an hour of reading. Oh, and I cannot forget to read the Bible with them. And we might as well continue the book we started right before the summer break since our son was so excited about […]
Summer School??!! Cool!!
Summer educational fun, i.e., “edu-fun,” can be an excellent means to… 1) Begin home educating your children if you have not done it before, giving both parent(s) and child the opportunity to become more comfortable with this method of learning 2) Focus in on one specific skill in which your child needed more attention than […]