NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. This is part 3 in a 12 part series….Read part 1, 2, 3 So far I’ve talked about setting up an enriching environment, and doing lots
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NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Please note: All links on book titles and covers are Amazon affiliate links and I do get a tiny percentage from any purchases
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NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. This is part 2 in a 12 part series….read part 1 here. Here we go…My trip down memory lane… The year was 2005…the
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NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. So…lately I’ve been obsessing with going through family pics from the early years of our homeschooling adventure. The years when I had at
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These last couple years have been an…interesting…experience. We went from being enrolled at a homeschool charter that gave us complete freedom in how we homeschool our kids, to a charter that is much more limited. I’m pulling my high school daughter out of our current charter after this year
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Oh, my life. If you are going through this too, I SO want to hear from you in the comments. Maybe we should start a Facebook group for us. This is HARD. I have always been an emotional person, prone to perhaps overreacting a bit. But I also have
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This post was inspired by my (at the writing of this) 10yr old son. I wrote this post several months ago and for some reason never hit publish. Since then I got offtrack with all that I wrote here. Today I rediscovered this post …at a time when I really
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I feel like I am living this….Everything around me is running a zillion miles an hour and I HATE that lifestyle with a PASSION…and find myself, sometimes unconsciously, sometimes consciously, rejecting this lifestyle. Things speed up around me and I often find a way to slow things down without
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Years ago, I worked as an intern at SCICON Outdoor School (aka “The Clemmie Gill School of Science and Conservation”) in the foothills of eastern Tulare County, CA. In fact, it was where I met my husband, Adam. It was a FANTASTIC experience. Seriously life changing. For one school year I
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I shared the state of our school room/art area/”Big room” last post…That actually hasn’t changed yet. So today I want to talk about overwhelm. You know the feeling. I know you do. You can’t be a mom in America and not be intimate with the feeling. But I feel like
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Hi! You don’t know me from Adam (LOL!) But I just wanted to take a second to put a bug in the ear of all the bloggers, podcasters, Scopers (that’s the people making broadcasts on the new Periscope app), curriculum developers, authors, etc out there that are producing resources
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I just read this article and it got me thinking…about parenting in general, about homeschooling specifically… None of us REALLY know what we’re doing, do we? We’re all just doing the best we can with the knowledge we have. But I don’t believe for one second that any of us
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Are you like me and you’ve tried a multitude of different homeschool curricula only to have them fail to work for you? If you are having a difficult time finding something that works for homeschooling your children, you may relate to this…. I have a new plan for the new year.
Continue readingi am so glad i found this!! what a great series! Part I, Whose Job is It? Part II, Getting Rid of the Clutter Part III, Let Them Help Part IV, It Takes Time Part V, Work Together Part VI, Learn to Practice Part VII, Make it Easy Part VIII,
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