100 Hilarious Homeschool Manners
A comical list of 100 homeschool manners for the entire family in every situation.
Homeschooling a Hardheaded Child The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Stuff No One Talks About
Why won’t he just do his work? He spends more time complaining about doing it than it takes to just do it. There is no magic pill or method of coaxing your child into quiet obedience. My advice for homeschooling a hardheaded child:
I want to Homeschool, But I Don’t Want to Teach
I want to be the kind of homeschool mom who can wedge herself in between Webster’s Dictionary and a selection of Usborne Encyclopedia’s …and I’d just hop down from my shelf to run out and buy pre-sharpened Ticonderogas, arrange field trips, keep the WiFi running, and set out tea for the college recruiters. Anything’s possible….
Mom Gets A Day Off! (To Wander Around Aimlessly?)
Oh the irony. To the 3rd power. And the third time’s a charm. So, obviously the first bit of irony being that I have pined away for a couple of weeks about the moment I could step out without the boys and go do the 15,431 things I’d filed away in my...
Gifted 2e: A Brilliant Mess
I don’t believe in ADHD, but I am pretty sure two of my kids have it, by all standards of diagnosis, and all three probably could pick up a few sensory hashtags as well. Recently, I learned the term twice exceptional or 2e. The definition comes closer to identifying my boys than any other. I like the all-encompassing value of the term, but still I hesitate. My son is a whole mess of personality quirks, brilliant and unique. Brilliance that could be missed, if it were prefaced with a cloud of labels buzzing around him like flies. I believe that their unique behaviors are the exhaust of beautiful minds at work.
Make Summer Reading a Blockbuster Hit: The Book vs. The Movie
How to read your way to the silver screen: Some of the best movies of all time originated as books. So one summer several years ago we skipped recording minutes spent reading for cheap prizes at the library and created our own summer reading program. We call...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!
