homeschooling

Homeschool Mama, You're Not a Teacher

Are you afraid of homeschooling because you know you’re not as smart or prepared as the teacher-down-the-road? We homeschooling moms can be an easy marketing target. Day schools promise so much more than we could ever hope to provide. They seem to run without a hitch and make us

On Using Homeschool Curriculum

In what ways have you let your materials be the driver in your homeschool instead of yourself? What ways have you tweaked your curriculum to make them work for you instead of you for them? When we talk about not being slave to the materials and using wisdom to apply

Parenting Tactics for Thinkers

I am more and more of the opinion that learning about personality types is a great way to learn to be a better parent and teacher. Here’s a section I have dog-eared in Gifts Differing by Isabel Myers: The thinker’s natural process is inappropriate when used in personal

On Driving Your Curriculum

As a homeschool grad myself, my first “real” classroom experience was college. This was interesting, because it meant I was old enough to be aware of what was going on and it was strange enough (to me) that I was curious. As a previously homeschooled college student, I overheard and

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