In our home, when the kids were starting out, I didn’t know much about reading out loud. With my A-type personality and love of worksheets, we had bookshelves full of textbooks and encyclopedias....
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When the going gets tough, keep your goals in mind and remember why you started homeschooling in the first place. It also helps to know that you have the support of so many others like you -- homeschoolers who were once new to it all and are now succeeding and...
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Meditating on Scripture forces us to think outside the box, pondering new ideas and thoughts that relate specifically to where we are in life in our homeschooling, parenting, marriage, and other relationships....
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The decision to homeschool is completely your own, but we all live within a community of some sort. And most of us need to explain our decision to at least someone in our support community. What is the best way to approach that explanation?...
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We all want our children to dream big and aim for the stars. We also want them to have clean clothes when they hit those stars. And we do not want their car repossessed while they are off saving the world....
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An annual portfolio provides a great tangible way for you to observe growth, learning, and progress for yourself. You can compare work from the beginning and ending of a school year or compare from year to year....
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If there’s ever a time in your life, a season, a chapter, where this Scripture is lived out to the full, it’s during the younger years of child-raising. In fact, it’d be difficult not to model some of these traits!...
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Perhaps, though, their advice comes not from forgetfulness but from a deep realization of a truth that they wish someone had shared with them as they struggled through the tough seasons, always looking for this time to pass....
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Copywork is a strategy made popular by the Charlotte Mason style of education. A student copies a piece of well-written work onto paper or into a notebook. While this may sound like handwriting, it is much more than that....
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Enjoy this time with your littlest learner! Though you may feel stretched by the many demands of parenting young children, homeschooling in its essence is so very time efficient....
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