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...
Summer Homeschool Hack In a weary stupor, one morning in late May, I came up with a summer homeschool hack and never lifted a finger. (Please hold the applause until the end.) I was looking for a way to ensure my kids wouldn’t bury themselves in digital debris with a...
Think of the main, honest reason you homeschool. If you could only give one answer, what would it be? Do we all have a different answer or are there common reasons we homeschool? Apparently, this is a difficult question, because when I asked this question on social...
All is not lost. In fact, this is our season! …We are always willing to forge ahead, find a way, clear a new path, and especially in the comforts of an amazing new fleece hoodie night gown!
Besides the obvious, leaving home 5 days a week for 8-10 hours/day and rectangular slices of cardboard pizza, I wanted to really list what would have been missed if I had not gone to a conventional school. If I am going to commit to homeschooling until college-do-us-part, I owe it to my boys to fully understand what I’m asking them to give up.
And the #1 thing readers said they would have missed was…
…writer & speaker of homeschool truth, humor and inspiration. Laugh along as I keep things ‘real’ about life as homeschool family. Turns out…you don’t have to raise goats or wear denim jumpers after all!