Q & A with Kendra: Involving Younger Children

What are your best tips for involving your younger children in the tasks the older ones are doing? I’m not sure I’ve ever really put much thought into how to involve the younger ones that way. Some of my older kids like having a younger buddy around, and so typically when it’s time to do chores the older ones are...

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Q & A with Kendra: 8 Hour School Day?

We all know that most homeschoolers do not “do school” for 8 hours every day, but most non-homeschoolers do not understand that equivalent (and even superior) public-school education CAN be achieved in only a few hours. How do you politely explain to (i.e. convince) someone that your children are indeed learning...

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Q & A with Kendra: Little Ones

Help! How do you get the little ones to stay still while you “attempt” to teach them? They want to bounce off the wall while I am trying to teach them to count, do phonics and even simple things like learning the colors. Although not a homeschooling mom, my mother was super good at teaching us things very...

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Q & A with Kendra: Competitive Moms

What do you do when dealing with pushy moms who have high expectations of their kids and try to compete? For example, some moms are always asking me if my preschoolers can read or do certain math. People have even gone as far as asking my little ones math problems in public. All because they feel they need to prove that their...

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The Best Summer Camp Around

I grew up going to summer camp every year- a three-week camp at that. I looked eagerly forward each year to my time there, for it was at camp where I learned to water ski, map the night sky, and climb Yosemite’s Half Dome. Summer camp was a formidable aspect of my experiences while growing up, and I know my brothers would...

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