http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog Wed, 16 May 2012 17:10:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/pregnancy-the-homeschooling-way/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/pregnancy-the-homeschooling-way/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 16:54:10 +0000 Rebecca Capuano http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=2149 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!]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/pregnancy-the-homeschooling-way/feed/ 0 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 18:20:29 +0000 Rebecca Capuano http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=1636 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.]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do/feed/ 1 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/a-homeschool-parents-guide-to-high-school-grades-credits-and-transcripts/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/a-homeschool-parents-guide-to-high-school-grades-credits-and-transcripts/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:20:15 +0000 Mary Ann Kelley http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=2127 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.]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/a-homeschool-parents-guide-to-high-school-grades-credits-and-transcripts/feed/ 0 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/homeschooling-high-school-free-webinar/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/homeschooling-high-school-free-webinar/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:39:35 +0000 Mary Ann Kelley http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=2108 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.]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/homeschooling-high-school-free-webinar/feed/ 0 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/cures-for-spring-fever/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/cures-for-spring-fever/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:18:28 +0000 Rebecca Capuano http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=2060 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!]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/cures-for-spring-fever/feed/ 1 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/what-is-memory-and-how-does-it-work/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/what-is-memory-and-how-does-it-work/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:12:59 +0000 Guest Contributor http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=2030 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/what-is-memory-and-how-does-it-work/feed/ 1 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/being-tested-at-testing-time/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/being-tested-at-testing-time/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:26:53 +0000 Rebecca Capuano http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=1962 Many a homeschooler feels "tested" by testing time. It often feels like standardized tests are a test of us. Of how we're doing, of our efficacy as homeschoolers, of our success as educators and parents. And it is easy to transfer our own inadequacies and fear of failure to our children at test time. Sure, we want them to learn. Sure, we want them to do well on tests. Sure, it would be great to have high scores to show off to nay-saying friends and family members as "proof" that our little homeschooling experiment really is working. But in order to be responsible homeschool parents, we need to take a true look at how much our focus on standardized testing is about our children, and how much it's about us.]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/being-tested-at-testing-time/feed/ 0 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/16-ways-educators-use-pinterest/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/16-ways-educators-use-pinterest/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:29:31 +0000 Mary Ann Kelley http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=1967 Have a Pinterest account? If so, you are in good company. Pinterest is being used for everything from tracking recipes to planning weddings. Homeschoolers are finding Pinterest a great place to collect resources in a virtual bulletin board among other things. Here are some of the ways educators are using Pinterest: ]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/16-ways-educators-use-pinterest/feed/ 0 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/math/big-topics-feed-kids-brains/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/math/big-topics-feed-kids-brains/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:18:01 +0000 Laura Grace Weldon http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=1528 Just try talking about an issue of substance in front of your kids. If they’re like mine, they dig right in with questions and opinions. That’s what makes dinner table conversation so lively. No surprise, research says that family discussions about current issues boost kids’ reasoning and mathematical skills. Unlike more casual chats, conversations about social and political concerns help kids make sense of big concepts including numbers. That’s because parents tend to give examples, use real life mathematics, and ask children to think for themselves.]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/math/big-topics-feed-kids-brains/feed/ 1 http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/grand-prize-winners/ http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/grand-prize-winners/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:59:23 +0000 Mary Ann Kelley http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/?p=1949 We are well into April and I've been remiss about letting you know who won the grand prizes in our Great Review Giveaway. The Grand Prize winners were chosen from among all of the entries from the beginning of our contest through March 31, and I am pleased to announce that Tenessa P. won Grand Prize #1 and Diane M. won Grand Prize #2! Ladies, please contact me with your mailing address by Thursday, April 12. Congratulations!]]> http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/blog/homeschooling/grand-prize-winners/feed/ 0