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Our Top 25 Read-Alouds (ages 5-12)

by SarahS
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Written by contributor Sarah Small of SmallWorld at Home We started reading to our firstborn the day we brought him home. We didn’t start with Pat the Bunny or Goodnight Moon, although those both played an important part in our story time with all our children. We started with a college textbook, Western Civilization. We [...]

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The Family First Mindset: You Can Count on Change

by Hillary
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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 [...]

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Guarding Your Marriage

by Kris
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Written by contributor Kris Bales, of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers So, why am I talking about marriage on a homeschooling blog? Because, in the last couple of years, I’ve seen the marriages of several fellow homeschooling families end in divorce.  Now, don’t misunderstand — I’m not saying that these couples didn’t take steps to guard their [...]

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The Gift of Slow

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom A note from Jamie: It’s Boxing Day, which in our home means another day of leisurely doing…not much. I love the pace, and it brought to mind this post from last year, which originally published on December 13, 2010. Recently I spent [...]

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Wishing You and Yours a Merry Christmas

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom Recent weeks in our home have been filled with a lot of creating a little math (of the edible sort)

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Merriment’s Agenda: Setting Expectations for Christmas Day

by Cari
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The following is a guest post written by Cari Stone of Thoughts Interrupted. I finally had enough. Somewhere between untangling the brand new battery operated car out of my daughter’s hair and consuming one too many cookies baked by my diabetic second cousin, I knew much of what I’d come to accept about Christmas Day [...]

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