The end of the school year is upon us and that means that we are all frantically searching for ways to wrap up the year and hit the beach. You may be shelving books, cleaning out binders, or even taking end of year tests. One thing you should be completing before hitting the beach though […]
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We can’t do it all. We can’t have it all. We can’t be it all. This is important for us to not only accept for ourselves, but also communicate to our children. Do we want them to have the best education possible? Absolutely. Do we want them to have it exclusively? Absolutely not. What good
What mathematics curriculum are you using for your kids? Most parents will answer this question with a single sentence. Some of us won’t even use more than one word to define the curriculum being used for our child’s mathematics program. Common answers to this question include Saxon, Teaching Textbooks, or even Life of Fred. While
When you go out into public and someone takes it upon themselves to “assess” our homeschool success by asking our 7 year old questions, how do you respond? When this happens, every mother, regardless of the school her child attends, is suddenly transported into the middle school spelling bee. We find ourselves prodded to the
This month we are discussing expectations. As we have all wrestled with new years resolutions, maybe you’ve started some new expectations or you’ve ignored expectations all together. After all, it’s hard to fail if you expect nothing. But as we learned last week, this is not what are are called to. Our calling is hard work,
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