Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
Written by Kara Fleck Once upon a time, in a season of self doubt and struggle, I was feeling overburdened with homeschool FOMO (fear of missing out). Comparison was hurting my pride. I needed to remember that there is a simple solution to my Instagram Envy and internet overwhelm: …
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Written by Purva Brown of The Classical Unschooler. Late one evening, a couple of friends asked me why I had my children memorize things. "I thought you call yourself an unschooler," one of them said. "I am an unschooler. But I'm a classical unschooler," I said. Laughter. "That doesn't …
Written by Melissa Camara Wilkins Last Monday, I woke up to find a pool of water on our kitchen floor because our refrigerator had decided to stop refrigerating overnight. Instead it had thawed every frozen thing inside it, which is really the opposite of what you want a fridge-and-freezer to do. …
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Written by Shawna Wingert of Not the Former Things I don't call us year-round homeschoolers. (More in protest than anything else.) The truth is, we do learn year-round. But that title just sounds so sad. No summer vacation. No days at the beach. No feeling of excitement when late August rolls …
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Written by Kari Patterson "I need to be able to offer you constructive criticism without you getting upset about it." She looked at me coldly. I blinked back tears. It was the worst possible moment for her sweeping criticism. I was tired, had spent the whole day serving others (doing work she …
