“Oh Mom!  I don’t want to do another vocabularly lesson!  When am I EVER going to need this stuff in real life?!” I’d be willing to bet just about all homeschooling moms have heard some variation on this theme.  Kids don’t like vocabularly lessons, with all those funky words they’ve never heard of, and having [...]

I am not sure how I feel for my state’s  standardized testing. Well ok I do know how I feel!  Not good at all.  When I see the news and it tells me that the children from our state aren’t graduating and dropping out it makes me wonder.  My concern is I want my children to have [...]

You would think that the end of a school year, or perhaps the very beginning of a school year would be the time I get the most questions about home schooling. I have found that right about this time of year, I get more questions about how to begin to home school. Maybe those questions [...]

With my daughter in fourth grade and a older I think her hyperactivity is calming down.  I think me helping her understand she thinks outside the box and knowing that that is perfectly normal has helped her through some tough times.  I notice she isn’t as forgetful lately too. But that easily could be cuz she [...]

I used to think how great it was that as homeschoolers, my kids could avoid those pesky state-wide standardized tests the public school kids had to endure.   (Of course, it depends on the state, whether or not homeschoolers must take these tests, but in many states they either aren’t required at all, or are optional.)  [...]