How to Take Awesome Photos of Your Kids

How to Take Awesome Photos of Your Kids

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photo credit: Christine – From Storms to Sunshine We’ve all been there.  Perfect photo op time, perhaps on a sunny summer vacation, with visiting grandparents, or the first milestones of life but then (oh then!) when we are handed our photos from the kiosk at Walmart or upload them onto our computer, we see that...

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Helping Your Slow Reader

Helping Your Slow Reader

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I’ve taken surveys of all my homeschooling friends, shrugged off the comments from ones whose children taught themselves to read at age three, and have persevered these last three years that we’ve been teaching our second child how to read. If I hadn’t successfully taught one child how to read, I probably...

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Evaluating the Year

Evaluating the Year

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New Year’s isn’t the only time for evaluation, homeschooling mamas (and papas) know.  There comes this certain time every year when our hearts and minds turn towards what is coming next.  Examining and critiquing the past year of lessons, I’ve found, is a great resource for planning and preparing for...

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Author Review – Ralph Moody

Author Review – Ralph Moody

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If you have boys, or even if you don’t have boys, Ralph Moody is an author your family needs to meet. He lived from the late 19th to the late 20th century and chronicled the fascinating life of a rural farm boy turned man of the family at age eleven during the early years of the 20th century. It is he you will meet on the...

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Getting Past your Homeschooling Brick Wall

Getting Past your Homeschooling Brick Wall

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Are you like me? During the course of educating your children and living life, do you ever feel like you’ve hit a brick wall? Maybe its a total loss of motivation on a child’s part because of the long winter (we live in snowy, dark,  cold upstate NY) or loss of motivation on your part due to cabin fever. Perhaps...

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Homeschooling with His Sufficiency

Homeschooling with His Sufficiency

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I’m a list maker. And a list cross-off-er. Before the homeschool year began, I had our bookshelves organized, a daily planner set for each day of the year for each child, daily circle time planned, printables printed, charts laminated and plenty of room in our ”schedule” for pursuing rabbit trails and...

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Relaxed Homeschooling: Taking Advantage of Environment

Relaxed Homeschooling: Taking Advantage of Environment

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My kids get bored easily. Do yours? A week of work pages, reading and recitation had left mine with a glazed over look in their eyes and groans when I mentioned beginning lessons for the day. Inwardly, I chided myself, “Look what you’ve done to them! Where is that relaxed love of learning you like to talk about and...

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