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Image Credit: Pixabay It may seem like an oddly specific subject, but our family went on a bunny chapter book reading kick a few years ago, and we found some of our favorite books fell into this bunny

Image Credit: Pixabay When I was a young, new, enthusiastic, homeschool mom I did some things right. I did some things wrong. Guess what? It doesn’t really matter. My kids don’t remember the mistakes I

(Image Credit: Pixabay) A math myth I hear frequently: There are two species of humans, the math kind, and the not math kind. No amount of study will turn a non-math person into the other species. Lack

Since I am focusing on math on my blog this month, I thought it would be fun to dive into some free resources on a beautiful math topic. This is designed as a lesson, where you can follow through the links

I chose the term home educate over homeschool because I am not trying to copy what schools do in my home, I am trying to far surpass them. I think children are people. Real, live, thinking, feeling people

Babylonian Math Tablet — Source: Wikipedia, see additional notes at bottom of post. Education 4000 Years Ago With the beginning of written language, there also began systematic education which had a purpose

What Children Learned, Why, and How Let’s step back. Away from the hustle and bustle, the gadgets, the information age, and the world where we need to know a million ‘things’ to succeed. We are going back,

This article is not about avoiding it, it is about making it impossible and finding your way out if it has found a way into your homeschool this winter. It is time to address the homeschooling trend of

The Myth of the Perfect Writing Environment I read a lot of articles written for writers about how to be more productive in their work. I have a busy life, just like the next person, and these articles

There has been a movement in modern education against memory. An idea that memorizing facts is entirely irrelevant and not necessary to a complete education. We are told it is more important to practice

In the lower back of your brain there is a little system, about the size of your pinky, called the Reticular Activating System, or RAS for short. This system is responsible for deciding how alert and

You may want your child to do all 100 math problems, even though she did the same kind of problems yesterday, and got them all correct. Your child may cry. You may let them move ahead, or you might say

The most important ingredient to a successful homeschool is a confident, peaceful mom. Kids will pick up and emulate the attitude of the leader. The leader is you, and if you are panicked, disheveled or

(For context, our children have been educated in the home from the beginning.) Our family moved across the country this past summer. It was the summer between my oldest child’s 8th grade year and the beginning

Do you dream of the day when your youngest will behave like the child in this picture? In this three part series I provide some mindset level help to those who are in the midst of teaching school age children

Have you ever thought of doing NaNoWriMo with your kids for some in depth writing practice? NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place during November. The goal is to write a

Picture Cutesy of Pixabay As the amount of information available to everyone’s fingertips has spread, so has the idea that kids need to learn more stuff. The problem with this is that there is only so

Mirrors strung about Always freaked me out. I just didn’t want To know myself, Quite that well. I didn’t need every dent and dimple Shining back at me From 5 different angles Rubbing my imperfections In

I read and followed lots of authors and bloggers who assured me through various posts that blogging was so easy. I would just need to write, and all of the technical stuff would be easy-peasy button clicking.

Image Credit: Pixabay The Untapped Pool of Reflection Children jumping, diving, thriving. Splashing, thrashing, crashing. Eagerly rushing To experience the cold fluid water Surrounding their skin. When