When I first began officially homeschooling, I read all the how-to books I could get my hands on. At the time, I had only one child, age 5. I studied methods, education theories, curricula, and took a scientific approach to teaching. I wanted to be thorough and efficient. Once I actually started “teaching” my daughter,Continue Reading
A Giant Leap of Faith: Why I Stopped Using Birth Control
This is a post from Jacqueline Forrer of My Blessings Homeschool Two summers ago, 2012, was quite the challenge for me. My husband was going through a major depression and I was struggling to make it through each day with our three children. I have since realized a few things that God was trying to doContinue Reading
A No-Stress Attitude About Potty Training
This is a post from Mandy Pagano of Suburban Stereotype Potty training. No two words can make my hair stand on end quite like those two words. With six kids– four of them potty-trained– you’d think this would be a piece of cake for me. But it’s not. Our second youngest, who is 3 1/2,Continue Reading
The Runaway Bunny – Story Time Activities
It’s Story Time again and this month’s story is The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. Crafts Handprint Peeking Bunny Craft at Fun Handprint Art Bunny Craft Using a Wine Cork for a Stamp at Sassy Dealz Sailboat Craft at Frogs, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails Bunny Puppet at Lovely Commotion Origami Flapping BirdContinue Reading
Tips for Laying Your Homeschool Foundation
Whether you’re embarking on the homeschool journey for the first time, or have been homeschooling for a number of years, I believe it’s essential to lay some foundations that will help to keep you on track throughout your homeschooling. This might include evaluating why exactly you want to homeschool, what your core values are, memorizingContinue Reading
Managers of Their Chores Review
It’s been just about a year now since we started systematically assigning chores to our children. Before that we pretty much just told the kids to do a chore when we saw that it needed to be done. If the garbage was full, we’d ask Luke to take it out. If the table needed toContinue Reading
Natural Homemade Household Products – Part 1
This is a post from Jennifer Leibert of The Adventures with the Leiberts I am sure most large families, or any size family for that mater, want to save money while helping keep our homes and families clean, healthy and safe. When you go to the supermarket and look down the cleaning aisle, you becomeContinue Reading
Top Ten Tips For Keeping Your Sanity!
This is a post from Rachael DeBruin of Diamonds in the Rough ~Maybe it’s just me here talking, but I’ve never found life super-duper easy, especially when you’re involving a LOT of children~ Fun… Yes! Busy… Of course…. Worth It? Absolutely! Each & every one of our children is a treasure. A blessing AND we’reContinue Reading
Spinach & Strawberry Salad with Homemade Dressing
This is a post from Jenn Porsche of Treasuring Life’s Blessings I love this time of year for many reasons – warm temps, walks with the family and the longer days of sunshine! I could list a whole host of reasons I love this time of year but I’d have to say one of my topContinue Reading
To the First Time Homeschooling Mom
Did you know that there is an amazing community of homeschoolers over on the Hip Homeschool Moms Facebook group? Did you even know that Hip Homeschool Moms had a Facebook group? The community has over 4000 members that are so full of encouragement and support for one another. They come from all walks of life,Continue Reading
