For many parents who home educate, it does not take long to realize that the more operative word in homeschool is home, as in this is a lot of wear and tear on our home, this school thing means that one of us is primarily at home[i.e., not working], and how are we going to live life past our bills […]
Finding the Honey Hole
Fresh off of our fall break and with the holidays approaching quickly, I could not think of a better time to take a bird’s eye-level assessment of our homeschool this year. We are moving forward well and feeling the sense of ease that comes from allowing the Lord to take on our burdens. I say […]
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 School Room [aka our Kitchen] Re-do
On my other blog, I shared about the air conditioner repair that is now leading to an upstairs renovation. As the strangest of circumstances leads us to re-do our home, I am standing on Romans 8: 28 and moving forward–even in the midst of uncertainty on so many levels. It had been 2007 since […]
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 […]
Why More Black People are Choosing to Teach Children from Home
I completed this interview two years ago, and I thought it might have become lost somewhere in their video vault. Instead, it posted on yesterday!! I am excited, especially because there are a number of African Americans, among others, who are making decisions to begin their home education journey right now. Why? Watch my chat with Rebecca Keliher […]
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 […]
The Learning Never Stops
original photo credit …though I am a “veteran” homeschooler (as defined by being not so wide-eyed when I consider the task at hand), I am increasingly aware that the more humble I am willing to be regarding what I do not know, the more I can open my mind to learning. Not only that, […]
Keeping Priorities in Organized Chaos
With over ½ of our summer gone (scary thought!), and after lamenting that all of our plans for academic studies have gone awry, I find myself asking that all-too-familiar question: where has the time gone??!! To be sure, we have been busy. In fact, I sometimes think that, regardless of what our car might look […]
The Truth about Homeschool
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 […]