Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
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 back with regret on impatient words I’ve …
The ABCs of homeschooling older kids (and ourselves)Read More
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 …
10 things I’ve learned in 10 years of homeschoolingRead More
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 …
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 …
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 …
