Time management for working homeschool parents is essential to avoid getting overwhelmed with your many responsibilities. The landscape of homeschooling has changed a lot over the years. In the late 80s homeschool families were mainly single income families where one parent stayed home with the kids and the other parent worked fulltime. These days, [...]
Getting ready for a new homeschool year is something that I look forward to doing every year. Getting new supplies, placing orders for materials, organizing our bookshelves, cleaning and organizing the house – it all gets me revved up and excited for the new school year. Whether this is your first year to homeschool [...]
These 4 habits for homeschool success will get you started on the right foot when school starts. A new school year is a new beginning for each of us. No matter what happened in the previous school year, we have a clean slate before us this year. Many homeschool families will begin their new [...]
We're offering 4 reasons for summer homeschooling in today's post. Many families have just finished the school year and the kids have been clamoring for a big summer break. If your family is anything like mine, after a few days the kids are bored, eating all of the food in the house, and screen [...]
Continuing education for home educators looks a lot different than the required continuing education that public school teachers participate in to sharpen and gain new skills. They go to workshops, training classes, and conventions. Home educators have no such requirements in most cases, but it's no less important for them to develop their own [...]
We've got 4 steps to save money on homeschool curriculum in this must read post! Our daily necessities are taking a bigger bite out of our budgets, leaving less money for other categories. For homeschooling families, who generally live on tight budgets anyway, inflation is making many of us wonder how we can homeschool [...]