What Every Pre-Schooler Needs

preschool
  Even in homeschooling, many preschool curriculums and learning resources focus on early reading skills, such as learning the alphabet and letter sounds. Some include basic math activities such as counting to 100 and single digit addition up to 10, sometimes not even using pictorial representations of numbers. Preschool curriculums for homeschoolers often have weekly
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Why Service Needs to be Part of Your Homeschool

service
  As homeschooling parents, we lay down our lives for our children. Often, we give up friendships, dreams, income, and more so that our precious little ones can be taught at home. We feel we demonstrate service to them because every day most of our activity revolves around serving their needs. Maybe we feel that
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3 Keys To Motivating Teens

motivate your teen
  Are you struggling with how to motivate your teen? Are you tempted to send him off to school to get some discipline? That might not work, either. Maybe he sleeps half the day or falls asleep in the middle of your co-op class. Maybe he doesn’t seem to put much effort into his science
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Tis the Season for Suspicion

choice to homeschool
  Ah, the holidays! As a homeschooling parent, I have mixed feelings about holiday get togethers. It is nice to see the relatives, but it is a mixed bag. Since my sister is a public-school teacher, I have not been able to speak freely about my life with my children for years. One year, right
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Six Things I Learned from ADHD

ADHD
  As parents, we often focus on finding solutions to the challenges our children (and we) face. We think of these challenges as negatives. What if we are really the ones who need changing? Maybe God gave us out-of-the-box kids to cause us to grow in our faith, to throw away our assumptions about parenting,
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Article Spotlight ~ Dispelling 7 Myths About Christian Unschooling – By Julie Polanco

  Click on the Article Below to Read   Article Spotlight~ *What are your thoughts about “unschooling”? *Unschooling is the hardest to define and the easiest to malign. *What is unschooling about? *What are the myths surrounding the idea of unschooling? *Unschooling could be an answer to your prayers!            
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Article Spotlight ~ Dispelling 7 Myths About Christian Unschooling – By Julie Polanco

  Click on the Article Below to Read   Article Spotlight~ *What are your thoughts about “unschooling”? *Unschooling is the hardest to define and the easiest to malign. *What is unschooling about? *What are the myths surrounding the idea of unschooling? *Unschooling could be an answer to your prayers!            
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