Sometimes it’s not easy to be different. Not just different, but peculiar. My mom always tells me a story about a girl that she went to grade school with… Peculiar she was, but not for things admirable; things memorable, but not admirable. Bumpy and dirty, her face earned her hurtful remarks from the kids inContinue Reading
Books to Prepare Children for a New Baby
Adding a new member to your family is a joyous time. But it can also add a little stress to your household, especially for the little ones you’ve already been blessed with. Here is a list of books that will hopefully help make the transition of adding a baby to your family a little smootherContinue Reading
10 Ways to Make Your Child’s Birthday Unique
Birthdays are a very special event in a child’s life. I remember when I was growing up, I always looked forward to my birthday with excitement. It was a joyous occasion to get presents, see my friends, and celebrate the fact that I was alive. Once, I went to a pond, fished with my friends,Continue Reading
Teaching Our Children Through Inquiry Learning
Hey y’all! Think back to when you were a kid in school or homeschool. What is your best learning memory? (Share it below in the comments please!) I bet that memory isn’t of you sitting at a desk doing a worksheet. I bet that memory isn’t of you taking a test. And I bet thatContinue Reading
Band-Aid Effect
When you have children between the ages of about one and eight years old, a band aid fixes anything. This is my Kid tested and Mother approved theory. In the mind of children, it can fix things that don’t exist, or things that are age old like past bumps, bruises, or scars. If they prickContinue Reading
3 Quick and Easy Ways to Prepare for Company
Our family enjoys welcoming others into our home but with six kids and a smaller house we have to make room in our home and our hearts before opening our door to company. While I would love to entertain guests in a freshly cleaned, well-organized, beautifully decorated home, that is not going to happen anytimeContinue Reading
Dinosaur Egg Bath Bombs
We took a little homeschool field trip the other day to a local nature preserve. What this really means is that we waited until around lunchtime, when we figured everyone else would be in school, eating, or napping and then we swooped in to enjoy the entire place to ourselves for several hours. It’s ourContinue Reading
How to Create Learning Activities for Any Book
Since one of our favorite activities is reading books of all kinds, finding activities that tie into our reading is a wonderful way to extend the learning potential of the book. You don’t need to rely on a store bought curriculum to tell you what to do; you can find and develop fun, relevant activitiesContinue Reading
8 Ways to Go Paperless With Your Homeschool
Someone recently called me “crunchy”. I was a taken aback because, frankly, I don’t like to be labeled, and I didn’t quite know what “crunchy” meant. I thought, “Me, ‘crunchy’? I’m not a treehugging hippie. Sure, I recycle, shop at the farmer’s market, and make my own granola, but ‘crunchy?’ ” I’ll be honest…I’ve wouldContinue Reading
4 Everyday Ways to Teach Kids to Be Kind
Teaching kids to be kind? That’s one of the hardest things we have to do as parents. That’s because teaching kindness isn’t a simple three-step lesson plan that fits every kid. Teaching kids kindness is messy, unexpected, and requires that we, ahem, show kindness ourselves. It also doesn’t help that unkind words seem to jumpContinue Reading
