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How Do I Know What To Teach and When to Teach It?

One of the best things about homeschooling is being able to study what you want – when you want. On the other hand there are certain topics that do need to be covered. If you are new to homeschooling or just in panic mode (a place I visit a couple of times a year), then you would like to know what “typically”...

The Greatest Lesson of All

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We have gone to the same church for close to thirteen years now. Since Oldest was 18 months old this has been the place where he felt – despite his challenges – the most ‘typical’. Families have come and gone but a core of us have stayed together and watched our kids grow up together. Every year in...

Educational Apps

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We’re a pretty high tech family around here. I can’t imagine life without my computer or my iPod. My husband got a Kindle for Christmas and though I love the feel of a real book in my hands it is a very neat device. My brother just purchased an iPad and I am impatiently waiting for the 2nd generation to come out...

I am Not a Super Mom

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I love to read blogs but I have to be choosy about which blogs to read and when. Depending on my current situation I might find a blog uplifting or convicting or I might be discouraged – thinking that all of the other parents out in blog land have this thing down pat. I always start each school year with the best of...

Giving all

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I recently made the comment on a message board that despite whatever education model a parent chooses for their child/children, they should give it their all. It was – of course – taken the wrong way. This is often the case on internet message boards where tone and facial expressions and inflections do not...

The Salt of the Earth

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Matthew 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth….” I have heard this quoted to me by many a Christian parent. They want to know why I am removing my children from what they consider a mission field. I was nudged while in church this morning to contemplate this verse and its use when it comes to homeschooling or...

Homeschooling in a Sea of Change

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I had ambitious plans to homeschool through the summer – truly I did. Though I can’t recall who exactly said it I believe it is true – ‘Man plans, God laughs’. I don’t think it’s a rude sort of laugh. I think it’s the kind of laugh that we have when our children do something they...

The Birthday Gift

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It’s somewhat of a family tradition – my mother was born three days before my grandmother’s birthday and I had hoped one day that I would have a child I could call my ‘birthday present’. He came the day before my birthday and he is the child most like me – in his temperament and his ways. He...

Free Homeschool Forms and Planners

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I confess – I am a planner junkie. I’m still on my quest for the perfect planner and my poor husband is still trying to design one for me– so I have a ton of links to free homeschool planners/forms. For most of these you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which is a free download. The best known and the site with...

Homeschooling Kids on the Autism Spectrum

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I am the mother of three boys on the autism spectrum. I seldom put a fine point on where they fall on that spectrum as each of them faces unique challenges. Last time I shared the story of how we came to be homeschoolers and it was harder to write than I anticipated. Recently my boys were evaluated and I, as their teacher, had...