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 […]
Homeschooling is full of challenges and those challenges look different for every family. One issue that I hear repeatedly from a lot of homeschool moms is… “Help! My kids don’t want to do their schoolwork!” You’ll find a hundred and one answers to this issue ranging from discipline more to unschooling to enroll them in public school! My home isn’t immune […]
I’m posting today as part of the Not-Back-to-School Blog Party where more than 25 bloggers have come together for the entire month of August to share all the ways that learning happens outside of textbooks and classrooms. Join me today as I share how you can use TV and Movies as learning tools in your homeschool. But before you head […]
It has been a fun 10 days filled with lots of printables, videos, photos, and advice for building an all around flexible homeschool plan for your year. Today I’m wrapping up the series with an all in one recap of everything we’ve learned! Step 1: Determining Your School Year For the greatest flexibility in your school year, I highly […]
If you’re just joining me for the 10 Days to a Flexible Homeschool Plan series, then be sure to read the previous posts. Day 1: 10 Days to a Flexible Homeschool Plan Day 2: Determining Your School Year Day 3: Finding Your Routine Day 4: Deciding What to Teach and When Day 5: Scheduling Your Resources Day 6: Putting it All to Work Day 7: Facing the […]