Tag: homeschool encouragement

Today I’m turning the blog over to the kids, and letting them tell what life is really like for a homeschooling family.  Last week I gave the kids the assignment of telling you what it’s really like to homeschool. They took to the assignment like fish to water, and I was quite amused to see…

The other day, I was thinking about homeschooling.  Scratch that last sentence, it makes it sound like I don’t think about it all that often, in reality, there are times it seems like it dominates my thoughts. {This post contains affiliate links.  For more information, read my disclosure page} I never meant to homeschool When…

After a particularly hard day of homeschooling when the kids had been whining too much, I turned to them and said, “That’s it.  Next week you’re going to public school.” And I got looks of great shock from my kids.  I don’t blame them because I’d always said we were homeschooling for the long haul,…

I’ve had grand learning plans for this summer. While our homeschooling is mainly on hold, I still wanted them to be learned.  I sat and planned out themed weeks of learning and then life happened, and I had to work on knowing when to let the schedule go. Or more accurately, June happened. I’d planned…

A few years ago I wrote our a post called Our must have hands on learning supplies, and I wanted to revisit the idea of homeschool supplies, but our needs in that area haven’t changed at all.  But, I’ve learned over the past couple of years there are some things every homeschool Mom needs. These…