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Pregnancy is, for most people, an amazing personal and family event. It is a marvelous emotional and physical transformation, and, for many, a true gift from God. The anticipation of baby #3 is certainly all of those things for us. But, because we’re homeschoolers, it’s also something else… the educational experience of a lifetime! Continue reading »
No matter the form it takes, we all have episodes of inadvertently teaching our children “Do as I say, not as I do”. And if we’re really honest, we’d admit that sometimes we just wish the adage could be true! But the reality is that homeschooling makes it abundantly clear that over the long haul, children do what we do more so than what we say. No matter how good our words, we just can’t get past the fact that it’s what we do and who we are that impacts our kids’ behavior the most. If we tell our children to not stress about their scores on standardized testing, but we spend the six months prior to testing working on testing practices every day with our children, worrying about how they are going to perform, and agonizing over testing results when they arrive, what message do the kids really get? Kids know when the message and the messenger don’t line up – and when they don’t, kids get the message; just not the message we want them to get. Continue reading »
If you didn’t have a chance to attend our free webinar ,"A Homeschool Parent’s Guide to High School Grades, Credits and Transcripts", the full webinar recording is now online. Lee Binz of TheHomeScholar covers a variety of topics and spends over 45 minutes answering participants’ questions at the end of the webinar, so be sure to listen to the Q&A session as well as the presentation itself. Continue reading »
We are so pleased to be hosting Lee Binz’s free webinar on "A Homeschool Parent’s Guide to High School Grades, Credits, and Transcripts" and I am getting very excited! I have had the pleasure of hearing Lee give this presentation and it is fantastic – I can’t believe how much information she includes. I have already used what I’ve learned from Lee’s seminar to get started on my 16 year old’s transcripts and I have a new confidence about completing them. Continue reading »
Cures for Spring Fever
Redbud tree in bloom
Do you have it yet? That illness that strikes all children as soon as the weather gets warm and the trees start budding? That’s right… spring fever! It’s the malady that causes you to wake up in the morning with absolutely, positively no desire whatsoever to do anything other than get outside. It often closely occurs in conjunction with the urgent wish to neglect homeschooling in the pursuit of anything involving warm breezes and sunshine. Let’s face it, if you don’t feel like sitting inside at the table working on academics, your kids certainly won’t! Continue reading »
