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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]