Teaching children to pay attention to their surroundings is an important skill that should be developed. As children grow and desire to become more independent, it’s critical they are aware of their environment. As a homeschooling family, my children are with me the majority of the time. It often feels easier and faster to

  It’s approximately 9 pm as I write this article; while I could certainly find a great deal of mindless pleasure in watching HGTV right about now, I have a funny thing called a deadline that I need to meet! It’s not that I am drawn to deadlines, or crave late nights staring at the

  We all have times when life gets a little crazy and our homeschool runs off the rails. It could be that you are sleep deprived and nursing a newborn or spending your energy packing up a house for a move. Maybe you or one of your children is dealing with illness, doctor’s appointments or

  One of the things I’ve heard repeated most often about homeschooling is that you don’t have to be a professional teacher to do it, and that’s absolutely true! Furthermore, you don’t have to be a mathematician, a linguist, a biologist, or a musician either. From animation classes to botany lectures, it’s all possible with