Empower Your Homeschool Teenagers: 10 Things That Actually Work

So I’ve been in this parenting thing long enough to offer you ten ideas to empower your homeschool teenagers. I’ve entered stage four of parenting homeschooled teenagers. (My fourth (& youngest) child turned thirteen last year…so stage four). I won’t be the mom to tell you that teenagers are so hard, that teenagers are so…

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7 Perspective-Shifting Homeschool Coaching Discussions

There are 7 perspective-shifting homeschool coaching discussions I routinely have. My goal? That homeschool mamas can live their lives with vision, clarity, and confidence. These perspective-shifting homeschool coaching discussions usually begin with a discussion on homeschooling, but rarely focus on homeschooling. What are these perspective-shifting homeschool coaching discussions? Here are conversation pieces I often hear…

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Unlocking the Power of Play: 11 Scientific Benefits for Homeschoolers

What are the scientific benefits to play? Can I tell you a story when I first took the kids out of school? I gave them loads of time to free play in the backyard. One of them could mix together clay and water, and make wet, gunky, globs of reddish mud-clay bricks, baked in the sun. She did…

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Join the Homeschool Mama Retreat: Refresh, Renew, and Reimagine

It’s time to take care of you! You need a homeschool mama retreat so you can learn to take care of you too.

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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 Encourage Independence in your Homeschool

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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