In homeschooling, you often have to make decisions that you never considered before. One of these is holiday time. Obviously, you want to take some time off for the holidays, but how much?
In public schools, next week is either completely off or running on half days for Mon-Wed, then there is the long weekend. But [...]
Homeschoolers have the ability to enforce the lessons learned in school all day long and what could be better than teaching your kids to be responsible? There are a number of ways to do this, of course, but to get you started, here are three ideas.
Give kids control over their lessons. Not all students will [...]
Often, when a child is attending school in a public forum, they need days off from time to time, just as adults occasionally need days off from work just to recover. These days off are typically called “mental health days”. But are homeschoolers in need of these, as well?
I think we can all agree that [...]
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Often we think of homeschooling as a time to teach our children, but you can end up learning just as much as they do! It`s great to embrace the fact that you can pick up new knowledge and show your kids by example how to learn.
There are so many opportunities for family learning that I [...]
Homeschooling and parenting might seem like one and the same, but the truth is, if you treat these two areas of your life as one, you`ll quickly end up in problems. I speak from experience on this, as a homeschooled child!
When I was growing up, my mother was the primary teacher and the frustrations that [...]
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