Homeschool moms are hardcore. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be everything for everyone. It’s why I often describe the homeschool mom-life as “being drawn and quartered daily”. The list of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks is monumental. You’re reading with the first grader, editing the high schooler’s paper, washing dishes, cleaning […]
There are bakers and there are bakers. By this, I mean there are people who find a great recipe, follow it meticulously, and create a masterpiece, and there are people who whip things up in the kitchen using some sort of magic and also create a masterpiece. Some people intuitively understand how ingredients work. The
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Preparing for this up-coming school year has looked different than all the years before. It seemed to me, for a long time, that the grammar stage would just last forever. Getting comfortable with days that aren’t as successful as I would have liked them to be took a while, but it happened. After years of
There’s more to school and education than the three R’s: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In fact, chances are that your children don’t automatically gravitate to doing math in their free time, but rather something else of interest. This complex focus and interest in something not rigidly defined by a school subject is a blessing. While
We just spent months exploring the mind of one of the greatest pattern finders of all time: Pascal. By now, we may see how fun exploring a good pattern can be, but do we understand why we care about patterns? Let’s examine a few reasons to pay attention to patterns: Mathematicians : Perhaps the most
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