Helping You Turn Your Homeschool Challenges into Your Homeschool Charms
The Homeschool Mama Self-Care Podcast delves into the real homeschool mom life and how to prioritize YOU within it. We’re here to help you nurture the nurturer, because who you are, how you frame your life, understand your purpose, and how you address your challenges, deeply influence your homeschool kids.
How do you incorporate geography in your homeschool? Loosely. With intention to playing. Fun is the operative. No serious allowed. So how do you incorporate geography in your homeschool in a child-directed way? Any time you come across a new country or location in a readaloud or a current affairs discussion find it on a…
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capturing the charmed homeschool: creating clarity, confidence and vision in your homeschool
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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 do you deal with the hard homeschool days? Homeschool has all the freedoms, except for those days. Those days. Those days…when it doesn’t matter what you do to quell that child, she wants to challenge everything you say, report everything her sibling is doing wrong, declare she can no longer read, can’t compute basic…
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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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Self-directed learning, a new term evolving from the unschool movement, enables our children to independently learn. In my early homeschool years, I lapped up all things John Holt and John Taylor Gatto. These unschool founders radically shifted my homeschool from a top-down approach. I radically unschooled for six solid months and learned that children learn,…
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