Teach Your Kids to Bake: The Whys and Hows ~ Written by Jamie C. Martin of Simple Homeschool and Introverted Moms About a month ago, I started teaching my children to bake. For years they have watched and "helped" me in the kitchen, standing around the center island with their own mixing bowls. …
Archives for 2013
A call to homeschool high school
Written by contributor Cheryl Pitt of the 2:1 Conference for homeschoolers When we began homeschooling in 2001, we decided to take it year by year. Don't get me wrong. I felt homeschooling was a calling, something I was supposed to do. But that didn't make it any less overwhelming. So, …
A vision for Simple Homeschool: What this site is (& what it isn’t)
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool Back in 2009, the lovely Tsh Oxenreider emailed to ask if I would consider a job as editor of a new site called Simple Homeschool. Thrilled, excited, and nervous, I answered "yes!" and came on board when this blog launched in February 2010. Whenever we …
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Shutting down the homeschool fight (before it even starts)
Written by contributor Kara Anderson. We were invited to our new neighbors’ house for a backyard movie night – and I knew it was going to come up. Because we’re homeschoolers. And he’s a public school teacher. There was going to be that question – that “why?” that strikes fear in our …
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Best books of the month
This post contains affiliate links. When you buy anything through Amazon after clicking these links, it benefits my family at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom It's that time again - another edition of Best …