As a bibliophile, it is hard to understand that not everyone loves to read. It truly boggles my mind, yet after years of homeschooling two avid readers, my youngest refused to read. Oh, she technically could, and I’d sometimes catch her reading something, but when asked to read, she couldn’t–wouldn’t do it. So, the first…
When it comes to teaching our kids, much like parenting them, you have to have an open mind. Each child is unique, blah blah… the truth is sometimes we get desperate for peace and quiet. For the squabbling, the stubbornness, the sheer noise that comes with parenting to stop. What we want is that peaceful…
Once upon a time, I started this crazy journey called homeschooling. I can’t believe that I have been on this path for 11 years now. When I started, I had a 6th grader, a 2nd grader and a newborn. The message that I was getting everywhere was to take a month off, for every year…
My kids wish I could tell you that game schooling was what we use the most. But it isn’t. It is however a wonderful resource for keeping my kids excited to learn. I learned about game schooling back in private school. Believe it or not we had two extracurricular gaming activities that I continued to…
Handwriting is one of the subjects that causes the most frustration in my house. My older two girls learned handwriting in private school. The never complained and just did what the teacher told them to do. That was not the case with my youngest child, the one I had to teach to read, write, and…
Remember back when you first became a parent, you had some serious expectations on what parenthood would look like, or not look like. Then that precious new life was laid in your arms, or if you became a parent of an older child, there was a moment when they became yours, then at some point,…
As a homeschooling mom veteran, I thought back on my first years of homeschooling and it seemed like everyone had something to say. It didn’t matter if the person had been homeschooling for years, or never homeschooled. Those comments and opinions all had one thing in common, they each had an assumption of what homeschooling…
Spring is almost here. Central Texas spring weather is up and down. No one knows from one day to the next, or five minutes from now, lol. Hopefully its beautiful where you are, and you manage to stay comfortable and enjoy the season. Little Bee coloring pages pair with my newest book “Little Bee’s Day…