This post contains affiliate links. Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Sometimes the hardest part of choosing books for myself or my kids is the process of sifting through the thousands of choices available. But I find I'm much more likely to …
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3 kids, 3 journeys to reading
Jamie C. Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Learning to read. It's a big deal, isn't it? I know it often feels HUGE to us as homeschooling parents. It's kind of the first thing we don't want to mess up, ya know? But in our eagerness to prove …
How to talk to your kids about modern-day slavery
Sometimes when I write about modern-day slavery and our family's personal mission to abolish it, I get emails from readers with questions like these: "How much do your kids actually know about your husband's work with Love146?" "How do I talk to my children about an issue as dark and complex as …
My favorite thing about back to school time
Written by Jamie C. Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool "It's back-to-school time, or as homeschoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time." ~ Stephen Colbert Would you rather listen to this post? He wakes early--and I always know when. I hear his voice drift down the hallway--starting …
Teaching kids to bake: The results
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Last autumn I shared in detail about how and why I started formal baking lessons as part of our homeschool. If you missed the post, here's a brief recap: Each child over the age of eight in our family receives …