New Overwhelmed Homeschool Mom

A Homeschool Dad’s Thoughts on How to Homeschool

By: twainausten June 14, 2021February 5, 2023

A homeschool dad’s thoughts: allow your kids to have broad parameters. Then listen to them, listen some more, and listen a little longer.

How Homeschooling Requires us to Face our Shortcomings

By: twainausten June 11, 2021November 10, 2024

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Rowan Atkinson is a second-generation homeschooler and is a recently graduated homeschool mama after homeschooling her four children for two decades. She is a historical fiction reader, British period drama watcher, soccer player, Sunday school teacher, author, and businesswoman. Rowan Atkinson is the author of Enough Already: Real Help for Homeschool Freakout Burnout and…

How to Encourage Independence in your Homeschool

By: twainausten June 10, 2021November 10, 2024

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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,…

How to Simplify your Homeschool (Because Complexity ain’t Fun)!

By: twainausten June 9, 2021September 5, 2025

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Can you simplify your homeschool life? Or maybe I should ask: WHY make homeschool simple? Cause you got no time for complicated. And complexity ain’t fun. So how to simplify your homeschool because complexity ain’t fun? First of all, we can’t do all the things, so we’ll have to simplify our homeschools. So you have…