As the beginning of the traditional academic year draws near many parents find themselves having to decide which curriculum they will have their children follow.  Some families go with the traditional text book/work book type learning experience.  While that works perfectly for some students, other students need a different method of learning.  Many of today’s students are quite computer savvy […]

Hi, I’m Linda, and I’m an accidental homeschooler. I’m the mother of a 9 year old daughter, who is not quite half way through fifth grade.  Homeschooling was never part of the plan.  Sometimes plans change.      Kindergarten, day one:  My impulsive, bright, hyperactive, and opinionated daughter decided public school was for babies.  She came home […]

Ok, true confession time.
I don’t use the lesson plans. I just don’t get it. I printed a whole bunch out, started highlighting lessons completed and just fizzled out. I don’t see the point. Since my husband’s injury, I am hardly able to even print off records, so maybe it isn’t all my fault, […]

I have to admit that I struggled a bit with T4L at first.  Getting started was very easy.  Signing up….a breeze.  Teaching each child to log-on gave them a true feeling of independence.
Choosing the levels for each child was easy, yet a tad weird since I have a child in need of access to both […]

So this question was posed to me tonight by Tracy: “Are you letting Bailey take next week off from school?”
Can you believe that I had not thought about it? Not even once! I was shocked. I know I have mentioned time and time again that T4L has saved our family from summer […]