Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, Dr. Kristin Moon (who blogs at Kristin Moon Science) shares her amazing story about homeschooling a child with dyslexia. I didn’t expect homeschooling my son to be so hard. I gleefully made the decision to homeschool my children, attending homeschool conventions and curriculum fairs before my sons […]
Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, we hear from Cindy Wetzel (who blogs at Homeschool Mom Extravaganza) about allergies and asthma, what parents need you to know but struggle to tell you. We don’t often talk about allergies and asthma in our homeschool circles, but we should. Having this conversation can help families […]
Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, I’m sharing resources to help when your homeschool child begs to go to public school. Is there anything more discouraging to a homeschool mom than when our child begs to go to public school? It’s like they’re screaming, “You aren’t doing a good job! You aren’t giving […]
Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, we hear from Kristina Peterson (who blogs at Book Bound Boys) about ways to keep your homeschool record keeping super simple! Everyone wants a super simple homeschool record keeping system. The system that I am going to share has worked for me throughout the years and has […]
Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, I’m sharing my own struggle with wanting to homeschool my kids, but not wanting to teach. You really can homeschool without teaching! We are finishing up our eleventh year homeschooling. At year ten, I was done. I was no longer interested in teaching my children, and I […]
Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, we hear from Marla Szwast (who blogs at Jump Into Genius) about wanting time away for the kids! It can be such a guilt-laden desire, but it doesn’t have to be! Are you racked with guilt because you don’t want to be around your kids every moment […]
Welcome to the “What’s Your Secret Struggle Homeschool Mom?” guest post series. Today, we hear from Kristina Peterson (who blogs at Book Bound Boys) about discipline in your homeschool. Do you dream of starting your homeschool day without arguing, procrastination, tears? Do you remember when they were little, and they joyfully participated in whatever you had planned without complaint? Okay, well, […]
Let’s get real for a minute, shall we? Homeschooling is hard. We homeschool moms (and dads) struggle with things like loneliness, or comparing ourselves with others, or wondering if we’re doing enough, or…or…or… Any homeschooling mom that tells you they don’t think about those things is either hiding something or they know some great secret that I haven’t figured out […]
Spring is finally starting to tip-toe its way into the South and it has me looking forward to more outside time for the kids. It’s been raining at least a little every day for the past three weeks and my kids are rather stir-crazy. In preparation for sunnier days, I thought it would be fun to put together ideas for easy […]
Over the years I have struggled with Nature Study. My kids love being outside and learning about nature, but I’ve never been very good at knowing what to do. We would walk around for a while and I would occasionally point out some pretty or interesting thing. That was about it. But then, I found Our Journey Westward. Cindy West has made […]