It’s vacation time again! Hooray! With three small children at home, traveling by airplane is cost prohibitive for us. We’ll be loading up our beloved minivan and hitting the road to sunny Florida this summer. After surviving this trip three times, I feel somewhat qualified to offer my tips for traveling by car with [...]
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A recent conversation with my husband led me to the realization that I was simply doing too much. Within the week following that conversation, the phrase “good, better, best” came up so many times that I decided to sit down and flesh it out for our children’s educations. Education Good (Enough): Send the kids to [...]
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Over the years, I have often thought that homeschooling seems quite a bit like running a really long race. For me, once I’m all done homeschooling, it will be a 16 year long race. The sad part about the race, though, is that when I started on the homeschooling track, I had a LOT of [...]
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Are you ready to homeschool the smallest members of your family? We have 3 children ages 5 and under, so this is my primary focus. I’ll give you my best ideas for how to get started. 1. A Designated Space I’ve been known to pour over homeschooling pictures on Pinterest, and I’m covetous of my [...]
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As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” Indeed, although as homeschoolers we have opted out of traditional public education, that doesn’t mean we have opted out of being part of the community at large. One unique but often overlooked benefit of homeschooling is [...]
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