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3 Things to Do When Plans Don’t Follow the Plan

by Jessica
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Written by contributor Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats. I‘m a fairly academically-minded homeschooler. It could be the former public school teacher in me. It could be my big head. But I like to know that my kids are making progress through their curriculum. I like to know that they score at or above [...]

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Wait for the right season.

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom Seasons come and seasons go. I don’t know what the weather’s like in your neck of the woods, but we’re smack in the midst of a freak New England snowstorm. Snow–in October! Am I the only one who finds the change of [...]

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Do this today and change everything.

by Jamie
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Ever have that nagging feeling that you’re just a day late and a dollar short–that you’re behind? Yep, me too, and I’m writing about it over on Steady Mom. Hope you’ll join me there! From my post: “A few days ago I sat down in the morning, per my usual routine, to make my daily [...]

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Teaching a Reluctant Learner

by Toni
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I have a child who hates school. This is hard for me to admit because it feels like I failed. I failed my son, my family, and the homeschool community. The bottom line… ten years ago I tried to force a square peg into a round hole, and it didn’t work. Instead of focusing on [...]

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Overcoming Homeschool Mom Burn-Out

by Kris
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Written by contributor Kris of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers Homeschool mom burn-out. It’s a horrible feeling. I’ve had bouts with it off and on over the course of our nine-going-on-ten years homeschooling, but never as bad as this last year. I was done. Wiped out. The last few weeks of our 2010-2011 school year can only [...]

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Are You a Good Enough Teacher?

by Jamie
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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom A note from Jamie: As the start of the school year draws nearer for many families, questions and doubts sometimes come knocking on our doors. I hope the information in this post helps to send them packing. It originally posted on August [...]

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