Written by Kara S. Anderson It was June. A hot June, and I had committed myself to a 40-day cleaning program. And so I lugged the vacuum cleaner up and down the stairs, sweating profusely, swearing almost as profusely, wondering why I had decided to deep clean my house during one of the …
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Prioritizing mental health in your homeschool this year
Written by Kara S. Anderson I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this year, it’s more important than ever to prioritize mental health in our homeschools. As I write this at the tail-end of July, already I am getting frantic emails and my podcast partner Cait and I are getting …
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How World War II fiction is helping me navigate this pandemic
Written by Kara S. Anderson When I was a little kid, I used to read in closets. Mostly Nancy Drew. My mother worried, but of course no one talked about introverts much back then. It was years before Jamie’s book and community would be born. So I read in closets, and my mother fretted, but she …
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The enemy of homeschooling: Guilt
Written by Kara S. Anderson A few weeks ago, I made a commitment that we were going to finish the last six weeks of school STRONG. We were going to buckle down on math, and finish the things that were lingering out there. I was so serious, that I put it on Instagram. I wanted some …
Homeschool planning through this crisis
Written by Kara S. Anderson I know I’m not alone when I say the past few weeks here have been challenging in terms of homeschool planning. I struggle with executive functioning when my anxiety gets high, and as much as I want to present a real plan to my kiddos each morning, it’s hard when we’re …
