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Hannah Vanderpool

About Hannah Vanderpool

Hannah Vanderpool is a writer, a world traveler, and a homeschooling mom to two great high schoolers and a middle schooler. She can’t imagine a world without sisters and books. You can find her at Praying With One Eye Open.

The ABCs of homeschooling older kids (and ourselves)

October 31, 2017 //  by Hannah Vanderpool

The ABCs of Homeschooling Older Kids ~ Written by Hannah Vanderpool of Praying with One Eye Open I've homeschooled my three kids from the beginning of their little lives, and I treasure the memories we share from our years at home together. It wasn’t all delight-led learning, of course. I look …

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Category: a mom's education

10 things I've learned in 10 years of homeschooling

10 things I’ve learned in 10 years of homeschooling

October 23, 2015 //  by Hannah Vanderpool

Written by Hannah Vanderpool of Praying with One Eye Open I’ve noticed something about my fellow homeschoolers. As a family’s kids get older, the parents tend to get quieter online, at least where homeschooling is concerned. It’s probably not because they’ve run out of ideas for how to …

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The power of poetry

February 26, 2015 //  by Hannah Vanderpool

Written by Hannah Vanderpool of Praying with One Eye Open. We’re in the living room. Two of the kids are stretched on the couch and they’re tugging a blanket between them, though they know better than to wear it out further. The middle boy sits on the loveseat. He smiles and flops himself …

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Category: family timeTag: poetry

Pressing through the middle years of homeschooling

November 11, 2014 //  by Hannah Vanderpool

Written by Hannah Vanderpool of Praying With One Eye Open I’m a writer who likes fresh beginnings and well-timed endings.  Middles?  Not so much. When I think about the middle of, say, a novel manuscript, I imagine a hammock creaking under the weight of a couple of lemonade-sipping kids or a …

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Homeschooling in a different world

September 5, 2014 //  by Hannah Vanderpool

The following is a guest post by Hannah Vanderpool of Praying with One Eye Open. The sun’s warmth slipped through the iron latticework of our living room windows, burning away the early morning fog. The first call to prayer sounded over the loudspeaker filling our apartment with strains of …

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