If you are like "the average" homeschooling family, one parent is largely responsible for the day-to-day schooling while the other is the primary wage earner. Most often Mom is the one at home overseeing the education while Dad is working outside the home. I don't think this particular …
Managing Your Kitchen and Your Child’s Education
One of the benefits of homeschooling our children is the opportunity to teach them the nitty gritty of home management. A very useful lifelong skill. This is especially important in the kitchen. Thanks to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution and others who are sounding the alarm, we're becoming aware …
Great Books for an Outdoors Education
Our family recently returned from our annual winter camping trip. Three wonderful days of backpacking, sleeping in a wood heated cabin, hiking to ocean lookouts, eating trail food, playing cards, sharing stories and many laughs. The woods and mountains, any time of year, are two of our family's …
How to Build Your Family’s Homeschool
My kids love building miniature houses. I think most children their age share this same interest. Colorful Lego castles, cardboard Victorian mansions, popsicle stick cabins--our living room floor has seen them all. Homeschooling families have something in common with these structures my children …