Overview: Your child can learn helpful memorization techniques as they memorize the periodic table! Note: I was given free access to the course Memorize the Periodic Table for purposes of this review. I was compensated for my time, but I was not required to write a positive review.This is all my own stuff, y’all. The […]
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We would all like to increase our income as time goes on, wouldn’t we? But sometimes that doesn’t happen; in fact, sometimes the process goes in reverse, and we actually need to start living with LESS. It might be a job loss or change, or recent medical procedures that must be paid for, or some
Overview: My own Classical Conversations review as I evaluate at the midyear what things are working for our family and what things are not. After years of eclectic homeschooling, where I hand-picked every curriculum for every subject, this year we decided to go with a packaged curriculum — Classical Conversations. (I discussed my reasons for
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Last week I listed my Top Ten Most Popular posts for 2015. Those were ones that you, my faithful readers — whom I love dearly! — picked. Today I get to tell you what MY favorite posts were from this past year. There is some overlap, but the ones I like veer more towards those
Wow, last year at this time I only had about 18 posts to my name, so sharing the top ten would have been silly. Well, NOT. ANY. MORE! I feel like I’ve arrived, or something!! And do you not LOVE the saying on the main image? I confess I just could not resist it. Maybe
I have a love/hate relationship with the term “excellence.” Part of that is due to my own laziness, lol. Another part is caused by inherent insecurity. But in my opinion there is actually a real danger in our current dependence on the word, which seems to have become a buzzword lately. I think we need
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We’ve been at this homeschooling thing for quite awhile now. If you count the pre-school years, when I started teaching my daughter to read, it’s been about 18 years of non-stop homeschool. But I really count starting homeschool as when we signed up for our church’s Christian-school-sponsored home study program. It was basically a homeschool
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As the Christmas season approaches, and I begin to make my lists and check them twice, I am reminded anew of a truth universally acknowledged: kids get more expensive as they get older. The family finances thus look a lot different when there are teens in the house than when all the children are small.
You may remember that I did a post last June entitled 7 Summer Break Tasks for the Homeschool Mom. Well, today I have a list of tasks for the homeschool mom to do over winter break. Um, yes, really. Listen, I realize that Christmas break is the time to relax and enjoy family. I do
In the world of Classical Conversations homeschool, organizing the student notebook for Challenge A is a hot topic. It’s the first year that students are learning how to become independent and responsible for their own work — in fact, “ownership” is the keyword for the year. So their notebook becomes a chance for them to
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Who is your favorite homeschool mom? Is there one that you wish you could be like? Maybe she is extremely organized, or she has the parenting thing DOWN, or she knows how to create totally engaging and informative unit studies. It’s wonderful to have women to look up to in our lives, because from them
Overview: The five-paragraph essay is a helpful tool — here are ideas for teaching it! Note: Contains referral links. In one of my articles about high school writing, I shared the story of when my eldest daughter took the ACT and got a poor score on the writing portion. I was flabbergasted at the time. I
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Overview: Science reports teach many skills beyond just science. Find out here why there are worth the effort! Note:This post is sponsored by CuriosityStream. I received their service for free, and I was compensated for my time to write this post. Please be aware, however, that all opinions are my own. Thanks! This is our
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I will freely admit that our children have missed out on some things because we homeschool high school. There is no doubt that there are experiences that the public school provides that we just cannot replicate in our home. Some people even quit homeschooling at this level, because they don’t want their children to miss
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One of my good friends when our kids were little was the absolute master of giving a birthday party. I still remember that time she made a giant board game out on her sidewalk. The party-goers were the playing pieces; there was a big die made out of a cardboard box, and things to do
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There came a day I realized I could not keep going the way things were. I could not keep sucking it up and continuing on. I just could not do the job I had been given to do that day. That was the day I first learned about asking for help. It was a Sunday
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Overview: The first step to breaking out of the debt cycle is to know WHY it’s happening. Here are 6 possible reasons. You can change your habits today! I am NOT a debt success story — YET. Don’t you sometimes get discouraged reading all the stories of people who paid off a gazillion dollars in
Overview: It’s impossible to have NO homeschooling regrets, but maybe you can lessen the list by avoiding the ones this veteran homeschool mom has. 20-20 hindsight is an amazing thing. :-) We all have regrets, don’t we? We have all made mistakes in our lives, some bigger, some not so big. We look back and
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Everyone needs a treat once in awhile. But these days, while we’re all trying to eat healthy, treats can make you feel guilty. Am I right? We’re eating this really yummy goodie and all the while thinking, “I shouldn’t be eating this.” Sigh. It makes it hard to enjoy stuff, ya know? Well, I’ve got
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I am a person who is easily distracted, y’all. Even just now, sitting down to write this post, I spent ten minutes cruising Facebook because something caught my eye. And in the midst of checking out whatever that was, I was led astray by something else… and before you know it, the clock had moved
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