Quick Start Homeschooling Confidence for Panicked Parents
A guide for panicked parents. How do I homeschool? Should I get a set of encyclopedias and a goat? Answers to burning questions and 3 steps to quick start homeschooling with confidence.
To Homeschool Boys
To homeschool boys is to free them from a dispassionate classroom that treats their natural tendencies as defaults and largely ignores the way boys thrive educationally. A glimpse into the rollicking and thriving environment that sustains the fiery styles of learning when homeschooling boys.
Beware the Homeschool Flattery Practice Homeschool Distancing
Beware the homeschool flattery by the desperate. Beware what happens after the respiratory vapors clear. Beware the poisonous embrace of those who would love to slip some regulations and requirements into our morning baskets.
Suddenly Homeschooling Parent Nightmare or No-Strings-Attached Opportunity?
Suddenly homeschooling, being forced into a new career that pays squat. The clients are ungrateful, always hungry, and filing complaints every 5 minutes. But, if you’ve ever tossed around the idea of homeschooling, here is your chance! If it doesn’t work out, you won’t be blamed. But what if it does?
Spring Break at Home A 5-Day Family Staycation Adventure!
This year I’ve decided on an awesome plan for a spring break at home. For these 3 reasons: (plus one more) A staycation will keep me distracted from homeschooling nonstop cause I’m a little bit OCD. A plan will keep spring break from becoming another week...
Part of Homeschooling is… 50 Random Things About the Homeschool Life
A list of 50 random things about the homeschool life to give the curious some perspective and a sense of order to the apparent chaos. Such as… #2. Part of homeschooling is running to the store for 1 tsp of iodine and a grape.
Homeschool Conventions are for Introverts too
If you are not a real people-y person, the thought of going to a homeschool convention might be the equivalent of a root canal. Or mom testimony share day at co-op. How ironic is it that the only time some of us worry about blending is when we are around other homeschoolers?!
Homeschool Assessment Testing Reflections of a Homeschool Mom in No. 2 Pencil
Choosing to participate in homeschool assessment testing, is as much an examination of mom as it is the kids. Plus, they could use a little experience with a bubble sheet and a cold sweat under florescent lighting.
101 Lies I Tell Myself About Homeschooling
A hilarious list of 101 homeschool lies we tell ourselves under the pressure for perfection and the desire for the outside world to pat us on the back. Dreams of educational success lead to grand expectations and impossible goals we can’t begin to complete when life gets in the way.
Enhance High School Learning with MOVIES! A Categorized List of Films that Educate and Inspire...
Let’s go to the movies! It’s a cram session your kids will endorse. Like life’s CliffsNotes, only with popcorn and comfy lounging chairs, movies can be used to teach life lessons and historical facts we otherwise might not have the time to cover in just 4 short years of high school.
Hi! I’m Jennifer…
…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!
