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Thursday, 01 March 2018 / Published in - Finding Joy, Articles, Blog

Go for the Gold

  Watching the Olympics this year set a blaze, which ignited the following thoughts in me. As much as we aspire for our children to “aim high,” the majority of our children will not be in the Olympics, play for a major league baseball team, write a best-selling novel, or star in a Broadway play.
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Saturday, 06 January 2018 / Published in Articles, Blog

New Year’s Motivation

  “Tomorrow, tomorrow, we’ll finish this tomorrow. It’s only a day away.” Procrastination can become the norm in a homeschool family’s day unless we are diligent to inspire motivation. Certainly, even in the best of homeschooling families, it is incredibly easy to get off track, to put off until tomorrow, next week, or even next
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Wednesday, 27 December 2017 / Published in Articles, Blog

The Joy of Jigsaw Puzzles

  1. Puzzles keep busy hands occupied during read-aloud time! 2. They can be toyed with while watching documentaries—depending on the doc. 3. They could be manipulated during memory drills. 4. They can be exploited as learning tools: puzzles of birds, butterflies, and even the elements are ample on Amazon (One film student completed a
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Saturday, 09 December 2017 / Published in Articles, Blog

Artist Moms

  For all those “Artists Masquerading as Moms”: Has your artistic side been lost in the shuffle? Have you allocated the “artist in you” to the back burner in order to accomplish your daily duties? Over our many years of homeschooling, I have created courses to stimulate my mind with the arts while supporting my
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