Homeschooling
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Do You Feel Overwhelmed by Homeschooling? Relax and Use These 7 Tips
Posted in Homeschooling, Supporting the Parent on March 14, 2019
Tags: Learning Styles
Anyone can feel overwhelmed at any time during their homeschool journey. You might be a brand new homeschooling parent and everything feels so difficult. You could be a seasoned homeschool veteran having a bad year because of health problems. No matter where you are in your journey, rest assured that someone else feels overwhelmed by Read More »
8 Read-Aloud Tips for Your Fidgeting Child
Posted in Charlotte Mason, Homeschooling on November 14, 2018
Do your kids have a hard time sitting still during the read-aloud time? You are in good company. Most of our kids have trouble sitting for five minutes, so sitting still for 20 minutes or longer seems like an impossibility. Let me tell you a secret - it's not impossible, and working on your child's Read More »
How We Use Tea Time in Our Homeschool
Posted in Charlotte Mason, Home School Creative Commons Resources, Homeschooling on November 13, 2018
Tags: Homeschooling Tips, Tea Time
The name tea time might either create lovely pictures in your mind or shrouds of fear and dread. When I initially learned about the concept of tea time, I had no intentions to incorporate the practice into our homeschool. However, as I began along my Charlotte Mason walk, the concept of morning time was brought Read More »
Why Every Child Should be Exposed to Music
Posted in Homeschooling on October 15, 2018
It’s the universal language. Music is everywhere. You can’t really walk into any store without hearing a back track, movies use soundtracks to stimulate emotion for different scenes, and from cars to phones, the capability to play music is hard wired into all of our personal technology. We love it! Music has been around since Read More »
Do Kids Always Need to be Working Towards College?
Posted in Homeschooling on October 10, 2018
When I was attending public high school, a very large majority of kids in my graduating class touted their University plans. It was the norm, and still is, to go right out of high school to public or state University regardless of whether students even knew what they wanted to do with their lives. There Read More »
