Never let your schooling interrupt your education.
Jamie C. Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom This post is part of an ongoing series about the educational philosophy Leadership Education (also known as A Thomas Jefferson Education.) Find the other posts in the series here. I brewed inviting mugs of …
Charting the path ahead: Making a homeschool “compass”Read More
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom I sat in a wooden chair at the dining table, telephone nervously propped in one hand, my heart beating unevenly. Steve sat across from me, listening in and ready to speak when called upon. "So what will you do …
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom Something seems to happen to me every spring - as the snow melts and the sun emerges, I have an urge to throw everything in our house away. (I never actually follow through with this internal nudge, don't …
4 spring cleaning and organizing tips for homeschoolersRead More
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool I want my kids to have a childhood. A living, breathing, mud-between-toes, romping-in-woods, staring-at-the-sky childhood. A secure foundation setting the stage for a secure life. The gift of childhood. I allow my kids to slowly unwrap it each day …
The disappearance of childhood and what we can do to get it backRead More
Affiliate links are included in this post. "There is no place like home." ~ L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz Home. What comes to mind when I mention the word? For many of us the stereotype of home (and if we're fortunate, our own experience of it from childhood) brings up certain …
