Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins This will be our family’s sixteenth year homeschooling. That is a sentence I can’t quite believe, but math and history tell me it is true. This year we’ll have two elementary schoolers, two high schoolers, one middle schooler, and one junior in college whose …
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Are your kids ready to read or watch the news?
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins When I was a young adult, I remember a string of weeks where one particular salacious news story was featured in every five o’clock, six o’clock, and eleven o’clock news hour. There were never new details to report, but the story was intriguing, and every news …
How to survive without the library
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins For as long as any of my kids can remember, our family routine has always included a trip to the library, at least once a week. Not to be too dramatic or anything, but I may have been known to say: I don’t know how I could survive without the library. I’m not …
Melissa’s homeschool day in the life (with a 16-, 13-, 12-, 9-, and 6-year-old)
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins I have been waiting and waiting and WAITING for a “typical” day to come along this year so I could write about it for you, but so far I’m still waiting. So… let’s just talk about the fact that nothing is typical and call it a day, shall we?? What’s typical for our …
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5 questions for a more connected new year
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins I used to think New Year’s resolutions were really stressful. Even picking a word of the year felt like a little much: You mean I have to handle ALL the holiday prep of December, wrap up a whole bunch of end-of-year details, AND come up with the Perfect Word to …
