This time of year marks a new season of curriculum “shopping” among homeschoolers. For me personally, I start shopping in the spring because we get our tax refund soon, so I want to know how much money I should set aside for the coming school year. I also start shopping now because the gloomy days[Read More]
Homeschooling Methods
For the Love of Games
Our seven kids love to play games with mom and dad! We enjoy games more than worksheets in school, video-game tournaments more than television, and board games more than other family activities. As a homeschooling mom, I love how playing games together as a family provides benefits that go far beyond school time. I love[Read More]
Tidbits of Truth for Homeschooling
Just to encourage you today, here are some great quotes from God’s Word, to help you in your parenting and homeschooling. God’s Word has all we need. “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness” (2[Read More]
Why Use Curriculum?
Last time I wrote a post on some practical, yet Biblical, homeschooling methods suggested from the book of Deuteronomy. I’ve been personally mulling over these methods a lot in the last few weeks. I’ve been homeschooling for many years now, and I’ve gotten more and more opinionated about how I teach in my home. (My[Read More]
Motivation for Learning
How can we motivate our children to learn? I absolutely love homeschooling and have no desire to educate my children in any other way, but admittedly, one of the biggest drawbacks to homeschooling is the lack of competition and the give-and-take that can happen in a good classroom. I’ve personally found this is difficult to[Read More]
Homeschooling Goals – Unschooling
As I mentioned in an earlier post on homeschooling goals, many times we homeschoolers are guilty of being sluggish in our thinking, too quickly adopting goals as our own when we haven’t compared them against Scripture. Often we make goals by reading popular books or by “going with our gut,” even when God’s Word says[Read More]
Homeschooling Goals
If you’ve been thinking about homeschooling for any length of time, you’ve seen books and articles that recommend that you make goals for your children’s education. I remember when my oldest son was just a few years old. My husband and I heard this same advice, and we honestly had no idea what goals were[Read More]
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