Sometimes we find ourselves with too many evening activities and not enough quiet evenings at home. The kids get in bed later and later, and it starts to pull everyone into a vortex of exhaustion and ...
Homeschooling at Our House
Encouragement and practical tips for homeschooling your children, shared from 30 years of homeschooling experience and graduating nine (so far)!
7 Tips for Homeschooling While Running a Home Business
Homeschooling while running a home business will look different for everyone, depending on the type of business, goals, homeschool style, and family situation. It’s possible to run a thriving business ...
Please Don’t Follow Too Close
This week our youngest girls began their first homeschool co-op experience (and it was awesome). On the first day of classes I walked the girls through the crowd to find their classrooms and met a few ...
Homeschool Graduation, Version 9.0
Our ninth child, Ami Grace, was born on the ninth day of April, weighing exactly nine pounds. She was delivered by her Papa, assisted by her oldest sister, because the midwife was still an hour away. ...
Five Ways to Help Your Kids Love Read Alouds
Reading aloud has been one of the foundations of our years of homeschooling. It teaches comprehension, sophisticated language patterns, and grammar, not to mention imagination and exposure to ...
Why We Have a Homeschool Routine Instead of a Schedule
It can take trial and error to figure out some things about your homeschool style. You might feel like a pinball, bouncing from one method to another, until you finally find a fit for your family….for ...
