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Jamie is a mama to three cute kids born on three different continents. She serves as editor of Simple Homeschool, and blogs about mindful parenting at Steady Mom. Jamie is also the author of two books: Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood and Mindset for Moms: From Mundane to Marvelous Thinking in Just 30 Days.

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Free range learning (Good Reads on Simple Homeschool)

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Like most homeschoolers, I love reading and discussing good books. I also enjoy sharing them with my readers, so I’m happy to have the chance to introduce you today to Free-Range Learning:How Homescholing Changes Everything by Laura Grace Weldon. As someone who pursues interest-led learning with my children, I was drawn to the concept conveyed [...]

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Weekend Links

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loving our cottage in Yorkshire What I’ve learned about learning :: Zen Habits Keeping your child’s heart through the teen years :: I Take Joy You’re doing it :: Vita Familiae Six things adoption has taught me :: Simple Mom The 5 stages of stay-at-home fatherhood :: Huffington Post “But, good gracious, you’ve got to [...]

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Q&A Friday: What curricula do you plan to use next year? (2012 curriculum fair)

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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and Steady Mom Over the past month we’ve heard from all of our contributors, each sharing the resources we’ve found helpful (or not helpful!), along with our homeschooling plans for the upcoming school year. I hope you’ve found this helpful as you begin your own planning. Personally [...]

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Simple doesn’t always mean easy.

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Sometimes doing the simple thing isn’t the same as doing the easy thing. Know what I mean? Last week I had the chance to share a guest post over on Simple Mom–The road to simplicity is marked by complexity. But it’s still worth it. From my post: “With all the talk about simplicity these days, [...]

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Join our curriculum fair!

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the sunset Elijah and I watched during our flight across the Atlantic Jet lag has just about cleared away from my brain now that we’ve been in England for a few days. This is good–it means I’m coherent enough to invite you to join in as we finish up our curriculum fair later this week. [...]

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Gearing up for a month overseas

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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and Steady Mom Something exciting is happening in our family tomorrow. We leave on a trip we’ve been planning for years –a month in England. Why England? Well, my husband Steve is British. All of his family (my children’s grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles) still live there. [...]

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