I was going to write post about what my family does to put family first. I wanted to tell you that every night at about five o'clock I come up from my home office, turn off my phone and computer and make an intentional choice to tune into my family through bedtimes. That's how I'm putting my …
Archives for March 2012
When to Stay The Course
Written by contributor Renee Tougas of FIMBY. The beginning of this New Year dawned bright. We had taken a break for moving and Christmas and now it was back to business. By mid February, like every other homeschool family I know, we were getting kind an antsy. We were tired of our routine …
Presentations: Assessing Your Student’s Progress
Written by contributor Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Like many homeschool families, we don't use tests as a measure of our children's progress very often. The math program that the kids use does regular quizzes and tests, as does the computer-based program that my older …
How you think is more important than what you know.
Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom A note from Jamie: I've been thinking about this post and its message recently. It originally published on March 21, 2011. Hope you enjoy it! We live in a distracted world. So do our kids. Information rapidfires at us …
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Finding a Happy Medium
Contributor Amida writes for Journey into Unschooling My friends and I were recently lamenting the end of our carefree days. It used to be that the group of us met up at the zoo or park every single week to play. This was when all our oldest were 7-years-old. Seven years later, they are …