Parents face some tough decisions due to the new Covid precaution procedures implemented this fall. Should you keep your children in public school and follow all the requirements? Or should you opt for virtual offerings or homeschool?
Are you considering homeschooling this fall? You aren’t alone! More people than ever before are making that leap! Providing your kidlets with that strong, customized education can be a daunting task, but with some quick guidelines in your back pocket, it is really not as difficult as one might at first think.
*Just FYI… in a lot of this blog post, I am writing to myself! Ha! At the date of this writing, there are no cases of the coronavirus in my county. I watch policy and opinion both being batted back and forth on social media while school children and workers across the nation are being…
I’ve compiled a list of skills that, as homeschoolers especially, our kiddos should have tucked under their belts before heading out into the great big beyond. Some of these we’ve already conquered, some we’re still working on.
Ten years sounds like such a long time. With this being our official tenth-year, ComputerGuy pointed it out to me that it’s also my official halfway point. With FixerGirl turning eight, that means I have just ten more years of this wonderful experiment left. Ten down, ten to go! Milestone!! With that being said,…
It’s so beautiful outside! The trees are all scarlet and golden and bright oranges this year. The leaves have been falling in what the kidlets like to call “leaf storms,” swirling and flying every direction on their way down. Soon we’ll make huge piles of them, and I’ll do our annual leaf photo-shoot with…
Sometimes you just gotta do it yourself. One thing I’ve learned about homeschooling over the past 9 years is that Homeschooling Mamas will jump through all kinds of hoops to give their kidlets a good, customized education. That’s one of the best things that differentiates homeschooling from “away-from-home” schooling, in my opinion. We focus on…
Yesterday was a hard day to be online. So many heartbreaking memories of 9/11 posted and so much news of destruction headed for the Carolinas from the hurricane; everywhere you look there is so much despair. But God is always faithful, even when we can’t see. Even in the dark times, He is there. We…
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