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Reasons to Homeschool

by Jamie
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Today I want to invite you over to a podcast I recently had the opportunity to record with my friend and colleague Tsh of Simple Mom. We asked on Facebook what you all wanted to hear us chat about, and surprise, surprise–many of the questions were about homeschooling. So if you’d like to get the [...]

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When to Stay The Course

by Renee
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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 and so [...]

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How you think is more important than what you know.

by Jamie
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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 from multiple directions, [...]

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Finding a Happy Medium

by Amida
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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 swamped [...]

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for when you want to quit

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and Steady Mom Have you ever just wanted to quit? Throw in the towel–hand in your resignation? I have. Just a few weeks ago, in fact. Maybe it had something to do with it being February, the notorious homeschool burnout season. Or perhaps the fact that my [...]

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Q&A Friday: Is homeschooling an out-of-reach, exclusive lifestyle?

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and Steady Mom Writing Monday’s post and reading through the comments (which are fascinating, by the way) this week started me thinking about some of the more philosophical reasons not to homeschool. Here are a few: Homeschooling won’t work for the masses; it’s an exclusive lifestyle for [...]

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