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Kara Anderson

About Kara Anderson

Kara is a homeschooling mom of 13 years, with a goal of encouraging fellow mamas in connection, not perfection. She also's the happy co-host of The Homeschool Sisters podcast and author of More Than Enough: Grow Your Confidence, Banish Burnout and Love Your Homeschool Life.

I quit homeschooling once

March 30, 2021 //  by Kara Anderson

I Quit Homeschooling Once ~ Written by Kara S. Anderson I quit homeschooling once. I remember the day actually - it was two houses ago now, and I was pacing in my living room. I had my sleeping 1-year-old held to my chest in a baby sling, and it was cold, because it was December and that drafty …

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Category: a mom's education

Maybe Scrooge was just tired: A guide to a more peaceful Christmas

December 8, 2020 //  by Kara Anderson

Written by Kara S. Anderson As I write this, I still haven’t made the cranberry bread. It’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and for the first time in probably a decade, we didn’t make the cranberry bread. Usually we make multiple loaves, and give it to family and friends. But this year, …

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Category: family timeTag: christmas, december

Why cleaning is different when you homeschool

October 13, 2020 //  by Kara Anderson

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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Category: home maintenance & management

Prioritizing mental health in your homeschool this year

August 18, 2020 //  by Kara Anderson

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 …

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Category: a mom's educationTag: mental health

How World War II fiction is helping me navigate this pandemic

June 23, 2020 //  by Kara Anderson

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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