The Homeschooler’s Simple Guide to Choosing Curriculum
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This fall officially marks my twenty-first year as a mother and my sixteenth as a curriculum-purchasing homeschooler. I am also a renegade at heart, which means I’m hesitant to do what I’m told, what everyone else is doing, or anything that comes in a box. I also spent a year as a curriculum reviewer for The Old...
How to Homeschool the Early Years
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Over the past several weeks, I’ve had many opportunities to be with sweet moms who are homeschooling young children. Over and over the same question comes up, phrased slightly differently each time but with the same basic foundation: what should my young child really be doing all day? Several expressed concern that while...
Let’s Finish Well
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You know it’s coming. March, April and May are nearly here. Which means the end of the school year is nearly here. Don’t feel bad for being excited about that, by the way. You had years of practice anticipating the end of every school year while you were *in* school … before you became the teacher/lunch lady/bus...
Is Your Homeschool too Heavy on the School?
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It started early this year. As in, really early. On our first day of Christmas vacation (which was, blessedly, the day before Thanksgiving since we take all of December off), I found myself sighing, “Only five weeks ’til we start again!” I tried to keep my great attitude to myself. But now that January has...
Dear Homeschool Mama
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Dear Homeschool Mama, It’s been a long year. 2011 is almost over. You’ve spent much of it at home. You’ve taught math lessons (over and over and over …) and learned more about grammar than you ever wanted to know. You’ve worked on character training as you’ve helped little ones make beds and older ones clear...
Christmas: A Time to Rest
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In our house, Thanksgiving dinner is a big deal. Like thousands of others, my table will groan under pounds of turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy, and way too many pies. We will pass platters and refill plates and someone will probably spill something. We’ve gotten to the point where we don’t bother saying, “So, what...
What Do We Do With the Dark?
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I saw him across the park as I scanned the area like a mama bear protecting her cubs. Many years I’ve watched for danger as my children blissfully play. Playgrounds at restaurants, swing sets at parks, lakes on nature trails; all suspect until mama feels like it’s safe. This park we’ve visited many times, and I’m not a...
Who’s Looking for You?
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You know things are bad when you want to throw in the towel. And the calendar heading only reads … September. Or worse yet … August. I had some great plans for this summer, as perhaps many of you did. Looking around the house back in May, I knew there was just too much stuff in too little room. Books, clothes,...
Being a Homeschool Mom Means My Life is Not My Own
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Today I was surprised to find in my email, a request from an editor of our local paper. Citing a current argument about busing for magnet school students, he asked if I cared to send him my thoughts regarding busing, magnet schools, or what sacrifices I’d made to educate my children. I thought I’d pass along what I sent...
Are You Doing Enough?
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Twice this week I’ve had the privilege of having heart-to-heart phone calls with precious homeschool moms. I call it a privilege, of course, because phone calls are not something I get to enjoy very often, in my usually noisy house! In both cases, these moms expressed a secret fear … that somehow, they just weren’t doing...
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