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Melissa Camara Wilkins

About Melissa Camara Wilkins

Melissa Camara Wilkins is the author of Permission Granted: Be Who You Were Made to Be and Let Go of the Rest. She lives with her husband and six (homeschooled!) kids in Southern California.

What your homeschooler REALLY needs to know

July 25, 2023 //  by Melissa Camara Wilkins

What your homeschooler REALLY needs to know ~ Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins A Note from Jamie: This is Melissa's final post here on Simple Homeschool. She has been writing in this space since 2014 - read her very first post here! I've been so inspired by her perspective, her approach to …

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Category: inspiration

The most important thing to do before summer ends

July 5, 2023 //  by Melissa Camara Wilkins

The most important thing to do before summer ends ~ Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins I want to tell you a secret: there hasn’t been much space in my brain lately. The reasons for that are both super involved and kind of boring, so I won’t trouble you with them. The reason I mention it at all …

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Category: inspiration

3 friendship lessons to teach your kids

May 30, 2023 //  by Melissa Camara Wilkins

3 Friendship lessons to teach your kids ~ Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins If, way back when we first started homeschooling, I’d made a list of things my kids would learn, it probably would have included the obvious: Math. Reading. Writing. History. Science. I might even have included Life …

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Category: family time

How to introduce Shakespeare in your homeschool

April 4, 2023 //  by Melissa Camara Wilkins

How to introduce Shakespeare in your homeschool ~ Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins Fun fact: the people in my household have a whole variety of opinions about Shakespeare. Some of my kids love reading Shakespeare’s plays. (One of our teenagers has a goal of reading them all before the end of …

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Category: curriculumTag: shakespeare

Melissa’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 9-, 12-, 15-, and 16-year-old)

February 9, 2023 //  by Melissa Camara Wilkins

Melissa's homeschool day in the life (with an 9-, 12-, 15- & 16-year-old) ~ Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins When my oldest kids were little, I used to read day-in-the-life posts like these feeling equal parts excited to find great new ideas to try, and totally inadequate comparing my days to …

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Category: organizationTag: day in the life, homeschool day in the life

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