Today we have five New Year resolutions for homeschoolers. People have a love-hate relationship with resolutions, but I like them because it's an opportunity to evaluate what I've been doing and make course corrections. Many times resolutions are hard to implement in the long-term because they're too strict or limiting. What if your resolutions were [...]
Are you wondering how to get started homeschooling your child in January? Winter break is a great time to get ready. So today we're highlighting our best blog posts of 2024 along with some episodes of The Happy Homeschooler Podcast to help you prepare for your homeschooling journey. Homeschooling doesn't have to break your [...]
The holiday season is upon us and so is holiday stress! The best thing about the holidays can also be the worst thing about the holidays. In today's blog post, we've got five ways to reduce holiday stress and get more enjoyment out of “the most wonderful time of the year!” Double up on [...]
Handling homeschooling struggles with your kids requires you to be teacher, counselor, parent, and coach all rolled up into one. While there is a lot of advice available on how to teach math or science, there's not a whole lot of information on managing conflict with your student as a home educator. In this [...]
The benefits of going to homeschool conferences are many and I'm here to urge you to make time to go to one. I understand that making time to go to a homeschool conference is hard. I understand that finding the money to go is hard. I understand that finding someone to watch the kids [...]
When should you pull your kid from public school after you've decided you're going to homeschool? Should you wait until the end of the semester? The end of the school year? Until Friday? This was the topic of discussion recently in one of my local homeschool Facebook groups. Overwhelmingly the advice was to pull [...]