The following is a guest post by Rachel Turiel of 6512 and growing. Factoids abound on the benefits of play. Entire books have been written on the subject. Play develops children’s fine and gross motor skills, communication, collaboration, imagination, problem-solving and ability to …
Archives for August 2014
Teaching kids to bake: The results
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Last autumn I shared in detail about how and why I started formal baking lessons as part of our homeschool. If you missed the post, here's a brief recap: Each child over the age of eight in our family receives …
Summer is for letting go
The following is a guest post by Lisa Kremer of Life is a Journey. In my house, everyone is ecstatic when summer holidays officially arrive – usually on a random day in June when I finally “give up” and put away the school books. Then we commit ourselves to spend as many waking moments as …