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.
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.
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.
We’re homeschooling here, so where are the homeschool kumbaya moments? If you’ve ever asked yourself this question you probably breathe air and live mostly on land. Oh, and you homeschool. And you should just stop looking for the kumbaya moments. Give it...
Homeschooling high school used to be an imaginary distant realm I pondered only when nosy strangers or worried relatives brought it up, or between 11pm and 3am on days of the week that end in y. “We will worry about it when we get there,” I’d say....
Everyone needs a best good homeschool friend. A friend that will listen to you lose your mind on the hard days without blaming your choice to homeschool. And friends don’t let friends complain alone. They join in with honesty, experience, and a sleeve of cookie dough.
…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!