Tips and strategies for planning your homeschool year, organizing your days and space, keeping records, and creating routines that work for your family.
Managing housework and homeschooling. It’s one of the most common topics I hear homeschoolers asking about. “How do you manage everything else in your day while you’re homeschooling? My house is a mess!” Because the question is so frequently asked, I’d venture to say this is a pretty common problem for most homeschoolers. I’m definitely […]
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Do you ever feel like a homeschool failure, momma? Well, one thing I know is that because you’re even reading this, that’s a sign it’s probably not true. Moms that are truly failures don’t care about whether they failed. Or maybe you could say they’ve given up on caring. So at least you’re not there.
Oh the dreaded homeschool attendance records. You may joyfully keep them, or maybe tracking attendance in your homeschool makes you cringe. In this post, you will find out why keeping attendance records are important and all the essentials of how to track them. Perhaps along the way, you’ll find the flexibility of a personalized homeschool
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Recently, I was mindlessly scrolling through Instagram when I stumbled across a clip of a talk Jordan Peterson gave in Brisbane on his 12 Rules for Life Tour. In the clip, he says you should “make a stupid plan.” Did I hear that right? A bad plan??? Of course I had to keep listening to
All my life, we have had a metronome sitting on our piano and I want to tell you today how your homeschool plan is like a metronome. Stay with me now. I liked to play with our metronome a lot when I was young. I’d move the weight up and down to adjust the tempo
“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs What does a simpler day look like? You may look at this list and think I’m
Are you new to homeschooling and see all the options for curriculum and methodologies and don’t know what to choose? Do you feel like everyone around you is spouting amazing things about their homeschool philosophy and it all sounds right even if it’s conflicting? Maybe you feel like you have to “choose a side” as
I’m a big proponent of trusting your instincts in life. Many may say to trust your gut. Or follow your intuition. Listen to that little voice inside, that inside “feeling” we all have a hard time describing. Maybe it’s God, maybe it’s our animal instincts. It can be any or all of this. So much
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It always happens that March comes in our homeschool year and I start panicking a little inside. I get curious about how many school days we have left to go. I feel the end coming and I’m getting restless. The late winter blahs are real. But then I start looking at what lesson we’re on
Getting started back into homeschooling after an unexpected break doesn’t have the same thrill as starting off a new school year. The new school supplies, books, and first day pictures aren’t happening. You’re not refreshed and renewed, ready to start the new year. Instead, you’re exhausted and feeling lazy and you’re honestly kinda liking this
