Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins This is the time of year when I like to reflect on the last year, notice what’s working (and what isn’t) right now, and start dreaming about the next year. But this year, that kind of planning feels a little bit… fraught? At this time last year, I had just …
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Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins I am going to guess that this year has not been exactly what you expected, that it might not be your definition of a "simple homeschool." Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you have a crystal ball, knew just what to expect, and are patiently waiting for the rest of us to …
3 ways to overcome back-to-school overwhelm
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 …
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 …
