Rejuvenate This Summer
Whether you are taking a short break or a couple of months off, summer is a great time to get rejuvenated! Tips to rejuvenate this summer.
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The Benefits of Home Education (and what to do next)
Everything you need to know about home education along with resources to get you started.
Celebrate 100 Days of Learning {Free Download}
“Celebrate 100 Days of Learning” is a free download from MensaForKids.org that actually includes 50 activities related to the 100 theme: The activities may be given to the students for individual self-guided work, or they may be taught in a…
4 Things You Need to Know to Educate Your Children
Education is an individual endeavor. 4 things you need to know to educate your children when creating your own studies.
10 Tips for Living on One Income While Homeschooling
We know first-hand that living on one income while homeschooling can be a challenge. But where there is a will there is a way! Here are our 10 tried-and-true tips for making it happen: 1. Stick to your budget. We…
Why You Can’t Just Leave the Track
Real runners never leave the track....
5 Books to Read over the Holidays
Each year through our weeks off during the Christmas break, I read several inspiring home-educating-related books to stay creative and motivated. Time alone spent educating ourselves makes us better teachers and mentors, and the breaks we incorporate in our schedules…
8 Ideas for Enjoying the Thanksgiving Holiday
If we're not careful, Thanksgiving can end up being an over-stressed, over-indulgent, over-chaotic holiday!
10 Tips for Homeschooling Gifted Learners
Tips for best serving a gifted learner with resources.
Homeschooling Special Learners
Considering homeschooling your special learner? A home full of love, warmth, security, and support can be the ideal atmosphere.
Finding Balance
Homeschooling requires finding balance. With all of the the focus on being productive, it is not surprising that we find ourselves on the cusp of complete and utter burnout! We have apps, roles and goals, lists, habits, more to do…
20 Tips for Staying Organized
Today we are constantly hit with streaming, flashing, fast-paced content that tends to leave us distracted and anything but organized. Here are 20 tips for staying organized — but this is not your ordinary let’s-get-organized list…. Obviously, discipline is one…
Summer School for Mom: Introduction
Summer School for Mom series to help you prepare and be fired up for the next year!
Things to Do: June
Keep them learning this summer with these free summer units, free eBooks, and great summer-themed finds!
9 Things for Mom to do This Summer
9 ideas for things the homeschool mom to do this summer.
18 Tips for Remaining Creative & Inspired!
In a slump? Looking for inspiration? Here are 18 tips for remaining creative & inspired — and keeping the spark lit:
Why Your Children Need You to Remain Creative
Becoming one-dimensional drains our energy, diminishes our focus, and affects our entire family. Our children need us to remain creative!
10 Ways to Stay Well-Rounded
10 ways to stay well-rounded and avoid becoming one-dimensional!
6 Tips for Avoiding Burnout
From expectations to practical solutions, here are 6 tips for avoiding burnout!
4 Ways to Keep Your Focus
Looking for ways to keep your focus? The Internet has made sharing information, ideas, models, methods, curriculum plans, material reviews, scheduling information — and so much more — very accessible to many, if not most, homeschoolers. With this barrage of…
12 Ideas for Inspiring Creativity
It is easy to fall into a rut — doing the same things day in and day out. Ready to liven things up a bit? 12 ideas for inspiring creativity:
The Key to Being Truly Productive
You'd think with all of the focus we'd have this productivity thing figured out! The key to being truly productive.
Perseverance … Again.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison True for our children as much as it is true for us!
Being Deliberate
Time passes so quickly. I don’t think this is something we can really appreciate until we are slightly out of the forest — you know, the one with the trees that keep you from seeing the big picture. Then we…