Helping You Turn Your Homeschool Challenges into Your Homeschool Charms
So many writing curricula, and not enough children. The more children we have, the more writing curricula we’ve sampled. We homeschool mamas and are just trying to find the perfect one. (And yet we never do). But there are a lot of great ones. I’ve used many writing curricula over my fifteen years. How to…
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Can you get rid of the spelling program and teach the kids to spell anyway? (Because I have. And I can tell you what I’ve learned about ditching the spelling program.) How to teach spelling to kids? Let’s chat. A new-to-homeschool mama asked me: “Do you have any advice on how to teach a child…
Read MoreHow do you teach four homeschool kids to read? Differently, do it differently, that’s the answer. I share my tale of teaching my four homeschool kids to read. But I’ve compiled a Homeschool Mama Reading List for you to read too! (These books are ones that have taught me everything that has helped me structure my homeschool).…
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I’m on my third day of malarial treatment, so I am feeling the full effects of life in northeastern Ghana. It is hard living in the developing world. I knew that the moment the airplane door hatch opened and the humidity blasted me with her welcome. We’ve been here less than a month and throughout…
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Sarah Scott is a certified Positive Discipline parent educator. That means she works with struggling parents of three- to twelve-year-old kiddos to help them stop losing it on their kids and create a strong connection to win cooperation. Sarah lives in beautiful British Columbia with her 4 homeschooled children. Sarah Scott and I discuss how…
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Just by speaking, we learn vocabulary. By reading, we naturally learn it all the more. Grandma overheard her granddaughter refer to her coccyx getting hurt on the sled hill (not conventional nine year old terminology, but she has a medical dad). We speak, they learn. I don’t teach vocabulary. But I am a word geek.…
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