A Writing Lesson Your Kids May Love

‘Tis the season for writing and receiving newsletters!  While I’ve never gotten on the bandwagon of writing lengthy newsletters about our family’s happenings over the past year to stuff in Christmas cards, I do enjoy reading those that show up in my mailbox.  And that got my mind turning one day… My children don’t...

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Countdown to Christmas

Either your first language or your second language is learnt by exposure. So you need to expose your children to the new language whenever you can as much as you can, through different learning aids, taking into account your children’s interests. What can be more interesting for your children than counting to Christmas...

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Mental Whiplash

There are some things about homeschooling large numbers of children that I didn’t expect. Actually everything is something of a surprise since I never planned on homeschooling, much less homeschooling nine children. But I digress. The thing that is surprising me currently is the mental whiplash that a mother of many...

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Vtech InnoTab

The Vtech InnoTab is a new interactive learning tablet, released just in time for Christmas. Adapting the design of Mom and Dad’s favorite touchpad devices, the VTech InnoTab Learning App Tablet helps your child take learning to the next level with one of today’s most popular technologies. This multimedia tablet...

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Happy Birthday Jesus Printable Advent Calendar

The first day of December finds most of us, especially our children, counting down the days to Christmas. For the next twenty-five days, use this free printable advent calendar to keep little hands busy with a craft and little hearts focused on Christ. I designed it to be rather generic so that you can add your own creative...

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Vlogging with Jenny

Jenny Penton is a homeschooling mother of seven children and loves the closeness that being home with them provides. Un-schooling is how they live and learn and she blogs about their learning experiences at Homeschoolingbelle.com. Jenny also has a passion for inspiring women to become master life planners and that includes...

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The Real Social Security Story

It’s hard to avoid, especially when you are a child. You read about it, hear others talk about theirs, and are prompted to write, talk and answer questions about it. What is the subject of this insidious obsession? A best friend. Doesn’t everyone have one? Don’t get me wrong, I think best friends are wonderful. What I...

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Take December Off

We started our school year the last week of July. (I heard those gasps). Before you judge me, we started then, because it was the height of the summer heat and mosquito biting. And we started slowly, adding in subjects. We also started in July thinking of December. See, we take the entire month of December off. To enjoy. To...

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How to Bless Homeschool Moms Who Have Chronic Illnesses

They look normal. They look healthy. They even look happy. Most of the time anyway. But they aren’t any of those things all of the time. I’m talking about homeschool moms with chronic illnesses. On the surface, they look normal, so we expect them to act normally. But they can’t. Chronic illnesses can’t be cured even...

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Huge Amanda Bennett Christmas Sale!

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