Academic pursuit is a stationary exercise. Homeschooling is making me fat. As the kids age and their academic demand increases, so does the surface area of the homeschool mom’s rear end. Homeschool moms must get creative to keep moving as the kids get older. Here are some possible ways to get moving…
10:28pm: Bedtime The moment we’ve all mom has been waiting for… Kids are tucked in bed under threat. Hubs is already working up to a soft growling snore. It’s “Me Time.”(i.e. the twilight zone (see homeschool nightmares) for everything I, and the world, forgot to...
The most memorable moments from our homeschooling have usually included cooking or eating. Yummy or not (one time we ate a fried bug, not so yummy) eating brings in more of the senses and increases the ability to learn. When I asked my boys what they wanted to learn...
Turns out, I have also accumulated a few trinkets of homeschool wisdom along the way…#13 Just go to the movies. CPS is not camped out behind the neighbors begonias. If public schools can take all day field trips to six flags and call it educational, you can go see the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid and call it journalism.
“You cannot measure speed with a thermometer. And you cannot measure the quality of a uniquely designed plan of individualized education using a checklist for manufactured drones.
However, we are capable of evaluating ourselves.”…
Of course girls love tea parties! But have you ever been to the boys’ table? Some of the many benefits of inviting the man cubs to the lace covered table go largely unnoticed, and are as follows…
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