How To Homeschool When You Want To Quit
Here are three ideas for how to homeschool when you want to quit. These practices saved my sanity, my children’s love of learning and our homeschool life.
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Homeschool Support: 4 Struggles Homeschooling Moms Battle
Homeschool support is about more than curriculum advice. It’s about helping to nurture and support a homeschool mom’s soul.
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4 Ways I’m Making My Homeschool Better in the New Year
As you set new year’s goals, reflect and think of ways you could make your homeschool better by considering ways you got off-track last year.
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How to Successfully Homeschool Without a Homeschool Planner
Homeschool planners are wonderful tools if they work for you. If you’re struggling to make the planner work for your homeschool, there is hope!
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When You Want To Quit Homeschooling: 9 Things To Do Instead
Homeschooling isn’t easy and some days you just want to hide in the bathroom. Here are 10 things to do when you think you are tempted to quit homeschooling.
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Why YOU are Your Most Powerful Homeschool Tool
Few people are true ambiverts. When you aim to balance the strengths and weaknesses of your personality, you become your most powerful homeschool tool.
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The Fail-Proof Response for the Homeschooling Naysayers
Tired of the homeschooling naysayers? Here’s the cold, hard truth that I’ve learned in the last twelve years while underneath the educational microscope.
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Teaching a Growth Mindset in Your Homeschool
Teaching my homeschooled kids to have a growth mindset has made a huge improvement in their attitudes about learning.
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Homeschooling With Littles
Homeschooling with the baby, toddler, and preschool crowd is definitely a challenge! Learn tips for homeschooling with littles to care for.
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How an Introvert Mom Survives Homeschooling a Large Family
Being an introvert makes homeschooling a large family an even bigger task, but being an introvert isn’t a disqualification from being a homeschooling mom.
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3 Ways to Manage as a Homeschool Mom with Anxiety
Parenting with anxiety is no simple feat. But when you’re homeschooling with anxiety…you’ve added a whole new layer to the fear.
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One Simple Habit to Find Beautiful Moments in Homeschool
Does your homeschooling to-do list threaten to take the beauty out of your day? When homeschooling gets rushed and hectic, the best thing we can do is to slow down and find beautiful moments in homeschool routines.
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Homeschool Strewing
Just by itself homeschooling can make everyday learning rich and interesting, but homeschool strewing is the sprinkles on the cake! Strewing is allowing your child to discover something you have casually left out for them to find.
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10 Ways to Prep for a Smooth Homeschool Start
Thinking about a smooth homeschool start? Whatever your method or calendar flow, August and September typically represent fresh starts for school rhythms.
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How to Find the Right Learning Resources for Your Homeschool
It’s difficult to know what homeschool learning resources links to trust and even more difficult to find the time to filter through those that are irrelevant to your needs. Here are some of the ways you can effectively search through the expanse of online resources with ease.
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Getting Started Homeschooling Confidently
Getting started homeschooling may seem scary, but it doesn’t have to. Whether you are starting in preschool or high school, teaching 1 child or 7, getting started homeschooling may feel like learning a foreign language to some. Let me reassure you it doesn’t have to be that difficult.
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Games, Apps, Services & More that Make Homeschool Learning Fun
Make learning fun with games, apps, services and more. We know that the more interested kids are in what they are doing the more likely they are to retain the information. So make learning fun with these resources.
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Socialization: Doing It Right In Our Homeschool
Here’s how to handle the dreaded socialization question that you’ll inevitably get when you reveal that you homeschool. Find out how homeschooling provides advantages for socialization instead of drawbacks!
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How To Find a Homeschool Group or Co-op That Fits Your Family
Finding the right homeschool group or co-op can be a struggle, here are some simple tips from a homeschool group leader to help you find your perfect fit.
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6 Habits for Cultivating Kindness in Your Homeschool
Noticing and assisting others can help grow kinder kids who mature into kinder adults. This isn’t just good for the world – it’s good for our kids. Being kind can actually affect how their brains develop! Here are 6 ways you can cultivate kindness in your kids.
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Six Homeschool Morning Time Myths and Why They Are Just Not True
As the popularity of morning time grows, so do the misunderstandings about it. I’m am on a crusade to vanquish those myths right now.
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Finding a Homeschool Planner that Meets All Your Needs
If you are always on the hunt for a homeschool planner that would solve all of your problems and meet all of your needs, you’ve probably realized that the planner that actually does all of these things for you doesn’t exist. Here are my tips for finding one that works.
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How to Be Successful Homeschooling
We have only been homeschooling for two-and-a-half years. We are by far experts on homeschooling. I am happy to say that we have found one main key to successful homeschooling. I am going to share it with you. Are you ready?
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You Are Who You Are
What lesson am I supposed to learn when I notice the things I’m bad at? …that I am sure not good at some things. HOWEVER, God gifted me (like He gifted you) in some other things. We are who we are. I am who I am. You are who you are. By God’s design. He created each of us moms (and each of our kids) with gifts to bless our family and community. He gave us weaknesses to help us grow in character and dependence on Him (and others).
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Pseudo Homeschooling 101- Freedom & the Future of Education
This is our 4th year homeschooling and I’m learning more and more every day how to enhance my children’s education as well as our home life. I call it “Pseudo Homeschooling.” We find what works best for every subject, remain flexible, and continue trying different things. I believe that exposing kids to as much as possible at an early age will encourage them to feel safe to ask questions and cultivate their natural curiosity about the world around them. So a big part of my job is to research opportunities that are creative, affordable, and inspiring for each child as a unique individual.
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Top 10 Ways to Help a New Homeschooler Get Rolling
Jumping into homeschooling is exciting, but can also be intimidating. Whether you are leaping into homeschooling or taking a new homeschooler under your wing, you’ll find some inspiration with these top 10 ways to help a new homeschooler get rolling.
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3 Creative Ways to Prevent Burnout
I’m always super excited for the start of the school year and my kids are too. But by the time the holiday season rolls around, we are all a little tired. The kids get grumpy and complain that they have So Much To Do! I get grumpy and do not have the patience that I had earlier in the year. We tend to do less fun activities and more of the daily grind. It gets boring and we are all a little worn out.
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Answering the Homeschool Critics
Although homeschooling is becoming more mainstream, there are plenty of people who have honest questions and even vehement criticisms of this educational choice. What do you do when faced with a homeschool critic? Do you change the subject, begin arguing, or try to gently reason with the critic?
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