Homeschooling an angry child: The hardest part of Jamie’s homeschool year
…my child has had an outburst, I get to watch an episode of Little House on the Prairie. Crazy, right? But it changes (to a small degree) the way I…
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Kari’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 4-, 6-, 15-, and 18-year-old)
…bout of Norovirus, so I look sadly at the coffee pot and spend a quick moment of silence lamenting that still, nothing sounds good. I pour a little, sniff it,…
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Home for the Holidays: What’s your favorite holiday read-aloud?
…Little Drummer Boy, and A Little House Christmas Treasury. So that’s our question today: What’s your favorite holiday read-aloud? Looking forward to reading your responses, and discovering some new titles!…
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Weekend links
…is unnecessary :: TEDx How to make an upcycled playhouse :: Clean When life hands you the too big fork :: Sacred Mundane Postcards from De Smet & our Little…
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If you feel like quitting homeschooling
…enjoying Build Your Library’s Harry Potter unit studies. The archives of Simple Homeschool have many ideas, too, including the Read the World Summer book club and Jamie’s awesome Little House…
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Weekend links
…semester via the free class from Missouri State University (& maybe we’ll finally figure out WHO really wrote the Little House books!) I’ve been wanting to add more poetry into…
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The Importance of Reading to Your Children
…be story characters? At my house I regularly “visit” with Beauty and the Beast, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and Horton the Elephant – just to name a few. When…
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The Importance of Reading to Children: Where?
…discuss where we should read to our little people. Where we read to them? Does it matter — isn’t the sofa a good spot? Yes, of course. In our house…
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Healthy Obsessions
…them with something more beneficial or academic. I think though, that a little obsession does a body good. It is at these moments of intense study that one really learns….
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Switching from the Deficit Mindset
…like I’ve let down my kids, my husband, or our house. Why is it that we can more easily see the failures rather than the successes? Surely this isn’t just…
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Teens Are Scary, and Other Lies I Once Believed
…wouldn’t be? All I saw on television and in movies confirmed it as a dreaded age – when once sweet and loving little ones transformed into hormonal monsters who would…
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Melissa’s homeschool day in the life (with an 8-, 11- 14-, & 15-year-old)
…to sleep and start over again tomorrow. Parents of littles, what I want you to know is this: the days do become less of a whirlwind, eventually. Even the unstructured…
