Picking out which curriculum to use with your kids can be overwhelming and exhausting. Especially if you have made the decision not to go with an entire grade-level package. In this post, I will share my process for selecting the materials and curriculum my kids will use each year. I shop my house. I shop…
Brain Fat is Cool How to Get Your Kids Eating It, Even if They Hate Fish In this article, you will learn about the different forms of Omega 3 fats and tips and tricks to eat them in a yummy fashion so your kids are begging for more instead of running screaming in the other…
I have a confession to make. We didn't study history much during the first few years of our homeschooling journey. Sure we had a few D'Aulaire books I read aloud, but other than that…the kids weren't asking questions and I was busy enough teaching reading, writing, math, and science (because they had a LOT of…
This morning I was sharing some tidbits of a news article, mostly because the article was ridiculous. It reported nothing new and could not seem to develop a single idea, instead, jumping about randomly. This was published online at one of those Giant News Sources. For their sake, I will not say which one is…
Why Getting Students Moving is Key to Academic Success Research has shown that our brain structure is connected to the movement of our bodies. While getting enough oxygen to the brain is a really good reason to get your kids moving more, it is one small piece of the puzzle of benefits available to the…
(Spoiler Alert: I don't) This is a big-picture, mindset type post. If you need specific teaching tips for homeschooling a large family read my article Teaching Multiple Ages and Grades in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, it's free to read online. This is one of the first questions I get when meeting new people. Even before…
As I read about cognitive and neuroscience and all the amazing ways our brain learns I often see why I was attracted to certain educational philosophies and also why I didn’t jump all in. In other words, most of the educational philosophies popular in the homeschooling world have clear strengths and weaknesses when viewed through…
Sometimes life is really simpler than we make it. But also, when we ignore those basic, simple things in life, it can get complicated pretty fast. Everyone has a new idea, or is busy unearthing and promoting an old idea, and many times all these ideas seem to conflict and tear you apart as you…
We Need to Fill our Homes with Treasures. Some curricula is a treasure, but many are just copycats of the bland materials used in the public school system. The system we have left behind for one reason or another…perhaps the lack of treasures was a bigger reason than we realized at first? Treasures Take Time…
Into the darknessa little thread of light spunreaching itself thinall the way to the edgesof the darkness. It was a bright little lightbut as it became thinner and thinnerit also became dimmer and dimmeruntil it almost wasn't. Looking around,the little lightwas filled with despairbecause despite all that stretchingit had failedto transformthe darkness. Just beforethe little…