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How to Homeschool with a Baby or Toddler (& Enjoy It!)

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Written by Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool and founder of Steady Mom A note from Jamie: I’m on vacation for a few weeks. Picture me, chasing three children through beach waves as we happily go away while others are heading back to school. The advantages of homeschooling, yes?! With the school year starting up [...]

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Using Google Calendar for Lesson Plans

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The following is a guest post, written by Lora Lynn Fanning of Vita Familiae. The thought of filling a lesson plan book full of notes that I may or may not ever refer back to has always seemed to be a daunting and unexciting task. But when the idea of using a shareable online calendar [...]

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Where Do You Homeschool?

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The following is a guest post from Mandi of Organizing Your Way. After deciding to homeschool and choosing a curriculum, one of the biggest questions that homeschoolers deal with on a regular basis is where to homeschool and how to set up a school room. However, like pretty much every other aspect of homeschooling, the [...]

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Record Keeping for Interest Led Learners

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When you don’t have a traditional homeschool, when everyone is following their passions–how do you keep track of everything? What if you have to provide “proof of learning” at the end of the year? I have a couple of ideas.

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Time Management for Homeschoolers: Making the Minutes Count

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As homeschooling families, we have lots to get done and not always a lot of time in which to do it. Duties call to us from all sides, competing for our attention. If we don’t intentionally determine our daily rhythm, we may never get around to what we truly value. But on the other hand, [...]

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How to Homeschool with a Baby or Toddler (& Enjoy It!)

by Jamie33 comments
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When I was first considering homeschooling, it overwhelmed me to think of teaching multiple children. How do you orchestrate the day so that everyone gets enough attention? And what if you find yourself blurry eyed from lack of sleep because of a sweet newborn? Or in the races as you daily chase a never-stay-put toddler? [...]

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