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  • Living Without Electronics, Even Just For A Day!

    Living Without Electronics, Even Just For A Day!

    In this day and age, I admit that it’s sometimes hard to say no to electronics, they are in most of our daily routines. This weekend my family got to experience a different sort of life. A life where tv, phones, and computers weren’t taking up all of our time. Even though I know…

  • Finding Balance In Our Homeschool

    Finding Balance In Our Homeschool

    In the beginning, I found that finding any sort of balance in parenthood let alone our homeschool seemed like the most ridiculous thing in the world. After many breakdowns though, I realized that we all needed time to be our own people, to do things each of us enjoyed, and to continue growing as…

  • My Homeschool Planner

    My Homeschool Planner

    We are going into our third year of homeschooling and I feel like I still don’t know what planner method works best for our family. I often wonder if I will ever find something that is perfect or if we will continue to just use whatever is working and tweak things as they stop…

  • The Real Question, How Do We Socialize

    The Real Question, How Do We Socialize

    Believe it or not, even as we go into our third year of homeschooling, “how do you socialize your children?” is still the number one question people ask me. I would like to start off by saying I, in fact, do socialize my children. Most homeschool parents will argue this fact because they tend…

  • Language Lessons For A Living Education

    Language Lessons For A Living Education

    I can not speak highly enough about the Language Lessons for a Living Education curriculum. We were looking for something that was all inclusive, open-and-go, and had short enough lessons that my son could stay focused. This curriculum manages to give us all of those and more. The way that the lessons are set…

  • Math Games

    Math Games

    Math doesn’t need to be the boring, dry subject that we sometimes think it is, by adding some math games you can really liven up math! There are so many different ways to bring math alive for your child. We have found that our children pick up math concepts they learnt while playing a…