How to Do Fine Arts in your Homeschool in a Child-Directed Way

How do you incorporate fine arts in a child-directed way? Loosely. With the intention of playing. Fun is the operative. No serious allowed. Also, fill a basket of things you and your kiddos like to do and pull them out when you’re doing a readaloud. (And take turns reading, so you can play in your…

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Before You Quit Homeschooling, Read This — What Coaching Actually Does

capturing the charmed homeschool: creating clarity, confidence and vision in your homeschool

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How to Use Little Women in your Homeschool Celebrations

How to use Little Women in your homeschool activities or celebrations? If there is anything we can do as homeschool mamas, it is to create memory-rich (& literature-rich) special celebrations, like my oldest daughter’s twelfth birthday. Madelyn and I planned the details for weeks. We printed a play from Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women so…

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Homeschool Teen’s Perspective: How to Homeschool High School

We want a homeschool teen’s perspective on homeschooling high school, following interests, socialization, unschooling a classical education, and pursuing her life’s passions.

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a Perspective Shift on the Art and Science of an Education

There’s an art and science in medicine, I’ve been told. If one could type symptoms into the Google bar and spit out a diagnosis, would medical doctors be required? There’s a certain experience and constant exposure that surrounds the assessment and diagnoses in medicine that can’t be captured in the Google bar. Let’s get a…

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how to deal with dashed homeschool expectations

No question, the parenting experience isn’t entirely as we imagined it before we brought our first children home. Neither is homeschooling. We need to attend to our dashed homeschool expectations. So how to deal with dashed homeschool expectations? In both parenting and homeschooling, I have had far more frustration and confounding moments than I conceived…

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