The truth about what you do and don’t need in your home learning space. Kids can learn anywhere, but that doesn’t mean you don’t need an organized space dedicated to the hard work of learning. Homeschool spaces look different in every home and family. But there are a few common threads you can see within…
A Parent’s Guide Whether you are homeschooling, your teen or they attend public or private school, personal finance is rarely covered in a typical curriculum. It is up to you, the parent, to make sure you are teaching your teens the personal finance skills they will need to be successful adults. Below you will find…
Because you need your -floating in the pool time- too! I admit it. Even though I insist everyone needs to have a plan, and write a schedule, even if it is a simple rhythm based schedule, I don’t like wasting a lot of time on the planning process. To me, the point of planning is…
Public school at home? Hybrid? Co-op? or DIY? There are a lot of different ways of educating kids that fall under the term homeschool these days. While some homeschoolers might argue that some of these are not truly homeschooling, I want to include everything that is generally referred to as homeschooling in this post. The…
Practice is the magic that changes brains. We all know that practice matters. If it didn’t we wouldn’t give kids worksheets and books full of ‘practice problems’. We wouldn’t practice handwriting, music, or how to do a proper push up. Practice matters because it changes us. It changes our abilities, yes, but it changes us…
10 tips to keep your kids learning and keep you sane. If you are gone all day, buy an audio book for them to listen too, or check out free options. There are a ton of old classics you can access for free with apps like librevox. You can also read a book at dinner….
How to get your kids to do a puzzle. Worried about being cooped up with bored kids for the next few weeks? Just get out a puzzle. It’s good for their brain. It’s good for your brain. You can find the science below, but first let talk about how to get a kid to do…
Gifted, ADD, learning disabled, or challenged, these words don’t help our kids learn better. Gifted, ADD, learning disabled, or challenged, these words don’t help our kids learn better. “No one is genetically doomed to mediocrity.” David Shenk: The Genius in All of Us Albert Einstein was just an average kid. In fact, many would say…
You can say that to my dog, but please, don’t treat my kids like pets. We know that the wrong kind of praise is bad for kids. It’s bad for parents too. Don’t tangle parents up in the shallow praise game. Let us be free to have rotten kids, normal kids, precocious kids, and curious…
You don’t have to take the school out of your homeschool to make learning beautiful Some people say that the home part of homeschool is more important than the school part. Some people even wish we could dispose of the term homeschool because learning at home has such little resemblance to what the modern world…