These fall days, before the big, deep chills, take your homeschool outside. Pack up the school books or pack up…
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Homeschool Habits
Taming the “wild west”
In a recent post on Passionate Purposeful Parenting entitled Defense in Depth, I wrote about the methods we use to…
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Forming Habits – The Ones We Shouldn’t Have Are the Easiest Ones to Form
When I have formed a habit, it’s usually because I have taken the time to write something down on my…
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Saturday Morning Mathematics
from the 2010 Hodgepodge archives…How to build habits in the day to day… Several weeks ago, I took our two…
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Fight Fire with Fire
When we decided our topic for August, I was both excited and apprehensive. I was anxious to hear what all…
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Help for Making Habits Stick
Photo taken of Mary Engelbreit’s Silly Mother Goose board book. One of our readers recently asked: How do you make…
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Fear Not, Trust, and Rejoice
It’s that time of year again – time to make your final choices for curriculum and to begin your next…
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Looking Back Over the Years of Homeschooling
In just a few weeks, my homeschooling journey will end. This road I have travelled so comfortably for the past…
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Apologia Science
Our family loves science and our favorite science curriculum is Apologia Science.
Helpful Homeschool Habits
Why in the world are we talking about homeschool habits when the school year is winding down and summer is…
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Homeschooling for fifteen years…really?
I cannot believe we have been homeschooling for fifteen years and have already graduated two of our eight children. The…
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Rod and Staff English Plus More Favorites
I was reminded again why we’ll be heading into our sixth year enjoying Rod and Staff English. Yesterday, third grader…
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Endings and Beginnings
“The end of anything is sad.” I often think of this quote by my grandmother, and lately, it has come…
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