How to Create a Homeschool Diet

By: twainausten
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Everyone eats differently.

I know every homeschooler doesn’t eat identically JUST because they are homeschoolers.

Most homeschoolers have a goal to equip their children’s brains so they can learn and build those neural networks.

Does our typical modern American diet provide that? (M.A.D…modern American diet).

19 tips to help your homeschool kids eat better, and you too!

If you’re in Canada, you can dial 8-1-1 to talk to a Registered Dietician. For free!

(If only I could call them to try and convince my child to eat his fish.)

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the life of the perpetual mother hen: finding quiet

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How to find quiet when you’re the perpetual homeschool mother hen? I’ve got a few tips.

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Life Lessons I Learned From my Homeschooled Kids

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We all learn from our kids. Here are six lessons I’ve learned from my four homeschooled kids.

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how to teach our kids to be financially savvy

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Bringing your kiddo home this fall? Here are four things you need to consider when beginning homeschooling: Your goal is to consider what an education is anyway and read about unschooling, deschooling, and learning.  I compiled a Homeschool Mama Reading List just for you! These books are ones that have taught me everything that has helped me structure my homeschool. How do…

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Counselling 101: a Parent’s Most Important Skill

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If there were any other skill we parents might learn before we begin this parenting trek, it would be this one…how to kindly, authentically, diplomatically deal with people. Teresa Wiedrick Really. Tough. Work. Trying to figure out how to co-exist in the world with other people. But we weren’t put in this world alone, so…

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how to facilitate child-led learning in your homeschool

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“A schooled education is a mile wide and an inch deep.” There are things I want to impart to my kids, no question. But learning doesn’t necessarily happen because I said something out loud, or the kids read through a passage, or they watched a video clip. Some days, I expected them to be like…

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