Category: homeschooling
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Our Homeschool Plans for Fall 2025: Group Subjects for Combined Ages
Here are the classes I’m looking forward to most in 2025-2026 — our group subjects!
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Reflections on Homeschooling (and Raising) Boys
Everyone used to tell us, “Just wait until you have boys.”
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The 3 Subjects We Want Our Kids to Be Fluent In Before Graduating High School
Spoiler alert: It’s not reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic
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Mid-Year Homeschool Curriculum Review: Kindergarten
Kindergarten might be my favorite year to teach. Here’s what we are doing for math, reading, science, geography, PE, music, and art.
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Advent Read Aloud Books 2024: Week Two
As promised, here’s our second week of Advent read-aloud books in case you’re looking for ideas.
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4 Unexpected Benefits of Homeschooling for the High School Years
I’m not saying it’s for everyone, but if you feel in your heart it’s for you and your child, don’t be afraid to take the leap.
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Advent Is Coming! Our Favorite Traditions (Plus a Week of Advent Books to Read With Your Kids)
How can we teach our children the value of waiting in a society that increasingly favors instant gratification? Enter Advent.
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Parents As Primary Educators: What This Means for Us
When we think back to our childhood we remember, before anything else, people. We remember friendships, community, narratives. And perhaps most powerfully, we remember our parents.
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Advice for Overwhelmed Homeschoolers
Advice for those times when you can’t juggle everything.
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7 Ways to Help Kids Love Learning
The word “delight” comes from the Latin word delectare, which means “to allure, entice, charm.” How many kids these days (or ever) would say their education is enticing? Charming? Alluring?
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Why Our Children’s Attention Is Being Destroyed (And How to Rescue It)
WARNING: This post contains 2,935 words and even includes a lengthy quote. It is considered too long and difficult for the modern reader to finish.
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