Making Christmas Memorable for Your Child with Special Needs
Families of children with special needs don’t celebrate the holidays like everyone else. As much as we’d like to countdown to the wonderful time spent with family, we just can’t enjoy the events in...
View ArticleOur Sonlight Core F Week 14 update and Book Haul
So it’s been a while since I’ve updated you all on my Sonlight experience. So far, so good…but we’ve made a few tweaks here and there. ——————- **Update July 2014: Please watch “Why I’m Not Using...
View ArticleCollaborative Homeschooling: A Chat with Devin Dabney of Connected Homeschooling
Today on the iHomeschool Studio, one of the speakers is Devin Dabney who will be sharing about Collaborative Homeschooling. I also had the opportunity to share with Devin 3 tips on how our family...
View ArticleHelping Struggling Spellers
While it is only one aspect of writing, one of the most common challenges children run into with writing is spelling. When encountering words children cannot spell, they do one of several things: ask...
View ArticleHow I juggle being a WAHM: Working from home while homeschooling
As homeschool moms, “juggle” is our middle name- and that’s why I’m glad to participate in the iHomeschool network’s series on How Homeschool Moms Juggle. My juggle currently happens to be working from...
View ArticleWriting Through the Summer Months: Tips for Reluctant Writers
It’s difficult enough to get children to want to write throughout the school year. But, with summer at our door, it’s harder than ever to motivate them to pick up a pen, much less do some creative...
View ArticleTaking This Show on the Road
Have you ever traveled with seven kids, two dogs, and a spouse who dares to set up a conference call during a 10-hour trip? Believe me, it’s just as much fun as it sounds. On one such adventure, Brown...
View ArticleGetting Ready to Homeschool a Child with Special Needs (without a Teaching...
For whatever reason, you’ve decided that you’re going to homeschool. You are both excited and nervous, but you know this is the best option for your child at this time. Yet, you’re feeling a little...
View ArticleBig Mistake You Can Avoid For A Healthier Happier Year-Pt 1
Becoming isolated in your journey as a Christ-focused Homeschool Family is a big mistake. However, you can understand and avoid it for a healthier and happier year. Isolation, intentional or not, is a...
View ArticleHigher Hopes
I bet my 2013 new year’s resolutions didn’t look like yours. I’ve always been a little fluffy, so instead of focusing on the weight room, I trained my sights on our classroom. Since the “new year” I...
View Article3 Ways to Maintain Beginning-of-Year Stamina Throughout the Homeschool Year
Let’s face it. That beginning-of-year excitement doesn’t last very long. Despite all of our best intentions, despite the new books and materials, several weeks into it and we begin to lose our...
View ArticleBig Mistake You Can Avoid For A Healthier Happier Year-Pt 2
In Big Mistake Part 2, you will hear the story of our homeschool family’s transformation from our big mistake of allowing isolation (shared in part 1) to embracing new friends in a supportive...
View ArticleThe Scary Subject of Art
There are those who are creative, and then there are those who are not. Now- not everyone is creative in the same way but when it comes to teaching creativity and art, most people get that deer-in-the...
View ArticleBig Mistake You Can Avoid For A Healthier Happier Year-Pt 3
RECAP OF BIG MISTAKE PARTS 1 AND 2 Part 1 shared how the big mistake of isolation happens with some homeschool families and what the Word of God teaches about relationships. Part 2 shared the story of...
View Article071:Thanks for Giving…
On this week’s homeschool podcast I’d like to introduce to you our newest team member and writer, Nikisha Ware. I decided to read aloud her encouraging post for this week’s Thanksgiving-themed podcast....
View ArticleHow to Help Your Child Become an Enthusiastic Reader
This guest post was written by Yin Mones- a graphic artist, writer, and mother. In these busy days of internet, smartphones, video games and instant gratification, parents are forgetting the importance...
View Article3 Ways to Bring Simplicity Back to Holiday Gift-Giving
My Christmas memories as a young girl include lots of food, lots of people, lots of whimsical decoration, but very few presents. The gifts I received were simple, often homemade, and only a sprinkling....
View ArticleKeeping Up Appearances
Real homeschool moms cut back their plants at summer’s end so they’ll come back next spring; they never kill their poinsettias. They can seasonal fruits so they can whip up a fresh cobbler in a (cold)...
View ArticleI’m Saving Up to Homeschool
I was sitting down with a friend talking about goals for the New Year. I’d shared some of mine already and it was her turn. She had what I call the “usual” list: paying off debt, losing weight, etc....
View ArticleSave Time and Aggravation with 3 FREE Online SAT Vocabulary Practice...
Hi there! I hope you’ve enjoyed the first part of this series and in Part 2 here, I hope I’ll be able to delight you with another free resource which will save you time, money and frustration. For...
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