My daughter has avoided word games like the plague in the past. She really didn’t like doing plain word lists, or vocabulary lists. Last year I even asked a fellow home schooling mom to “teach” my daughter spelling because it was just a serious point of friction with us. This year, I tried a different [...]

So here we are; it’s back to school time again.  I wonder if this year I’ll find enough fascinating & fun things to keep my son interested in school.  Better yet, he needs to feel challenged by school, and that’s one of the things public school wasn’t giving him.  But can we really do any [...]

I think my daughter’s artwork is beautiful. She loves to draw and paint. Her drawing is pretty decent actually, but even if it were horrible it’s my job to love it, because I am her mother. It is also my job, as a parent and her home school teacher, to provide her with opportunities to [...]

It’s that time of year again…Time to get creative and plan curriculum & activities to keep the kids learning through another year.  Often, literature and writing easily keep a child’s interest because reading and writing about imaginative stories and adventures can be fun.  But what if your kids aren’t so easily hooked? Scouring the net [...]

I think it is natural to try to label ourselves in society today.  Everyone wants a label!  What are you?  Well…with homeschooling it is the same way.  For some people that is what they like to do and so be it, but for me I realized labels stick with you and I didn’t want that [...]