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 [...]
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 [...]
Alternative ways of homeschooling may seem an odd thing to write about since homeschooling is already thought of as alternative by many people, but the best known types of homeschooling (textbook, classical, unit study, and unschooling) often don't fit people with unusual circumstances or schedules. Homeschooling has changed a lot over the years. These [...]
A working homeschool mom diary came about because I started seeing a lot more posts online asking if anyone worked and homeschooled. I've been working and homeschooling for over twenty-five years, when I was homeschooling my first five kids. At that time, I worked outside of the home. Now I have only one kid [...]
Preventing homeschool parent burnout is of paramount importance if you want to homeschool successfully. Homeschooling parents are more prone to burning out due to the many hats we wear- parent, educator, partner, employer, employee, household manager, chief cook and bottle washer, and so on. We can often find ourselves stretched so thin that we [...]