Starting the New Year with Intention ~ Written by Sheila Petruccelli I always find it hard to re-start homeschooling in January. After our big break in December and all the festivities that month holds, January and February look long, dark and (if I'm being honest) overwhelming. Even though the …
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When nothing is working in your homeschool
Written by Sheila Petruccelli of Sure as the World The last time I wrote a guest post for Simple Homeschool, I wrote about setting an intention to start the new year. I touched on our current year's theme of "setting sail" and briefly mentioned our arrival in "unchartered waters." Unfortunately, …
Homeschool planning and the ‘room of requirement’
The following is a guest post by Sheila Petruccelli of Sure as the World. Summer is planning time at our house. The upcoming year seems expansive, exciting and full of possibility -- the towering piles of books, papers and post-its scattered everywhere are tangible proof of this. For the most …
Dealing with homeschool doubt
The following is a guest post written by Sheila Petruccelli of Sure as the World. Usually it sneaks up on me. It starts as an infrequent whisper and quickly progresses to an insistent echo in my head. It undercuts my plans and has me second-guessing just about everything. It casts a shadow …