Growing up in the country makes the idea of going green pretty easy for me. My grandmother preached ‘waste not, want not’ to us, so I find it easy to pass that on to my children as well.
1. Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
My children are exposed from a young age on how to use our resources wisely. We pass [...]
If you were to describe our homeschool in a single word, it would have to be “eclectic”. I take what I like best from different philosophies and curriculum and use them in a way that fits best for my children. The Montessori Method has always appealed to me, and from my children’s earliest days I [...]
Homeschooling parents have a unique advantage because they can tailor design their children’s education. They can choose for it to be about more than just educating their children’s minds, but also about educating their hearts and souls, about teaching them how to be good people in the world. I am sure this is why many [...]
I’m not sure how many of you have noticed my absence but I’ve not written since February. It seems like longer to me but it hasn’t been. We recently went through some really hard times and to be honest it was all I could do to keep my head above water. Our spring homeschooling schedule [...]
Our schooling very recently hasn’t looked like the schooling that we usually do. Although I got close to scrapping it all and saying that we had missed over a week of school, I realized that I just needed to embrace what we had done, and not what we hadn’t done.
Though we did sit down just [...]