This is hard to write, but there are days that homeschooling is so hard, you want to crawl in a hole. Why? Some days no matter how you explain a concept, you feel as you are failing, as a teacher in teaching your child something new. If you happen to ask someone else who isn’t…
Over the years, I have had several moms ask why I think it is important to attend a Homeschool Convention every year. Well, there are several reasons. Homeschool Conventions are designed to help refresh the homeschooling parent, educate the parent, encourage the parent, support the parent, and advise the parent. There are more ideas behind…
There is one place to be in March if you are a Christian Homeschool parent, and I get to be there. Where Spartanburg, South Carolina at the Teach Them Diligently Convention “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. And…
In my life this week… This week was both exciting and sad, all in twenty-four hour period. That’s how life tends to roll though. First the exciting!! I am going to Teach Them Diligently!! I am very excited about this opportunity for several reasons. The convention itself is enough to make one drool, but I…
As a homeschool mom I was busy, but as a work at home, homeschooling mom I am BUSY. Sometime during this busyness, I can lose sight of what matters. I can get so focused on my children’s education and their projects, keeping house, working, blogging and trying to keep up with it all, that I…
I like to make lists, and be able to check those things off, however, more times then not, my plans get changed. This week those plans have changed over and over, and I am ok with that. However, I haven’t always been ok with it… It used to bother me and get me terribly frazzled. …
At the age of nineteen, I went through a rough time. It all revolved around a diagnoses of my dad having terminal cancer. I was home from college on Christmas break when he became ill. The first doctors who saw him said it was heart related. Later, it was a gall bladder problem. so they…
I can really relate to Rachel’s description of starting to homeschool. The journey to getting there. I was raised in an ANTI-Homeschool family. I was taught to believe that homeschooling made your kids weird, that they would be socially backwards, that they were just dumb ducks stuck at home all day and never learned nothing……
Over the years it has been difficult at time to keep a positive attitude about my children. These time thankfully are few and far between, but I also know that I can improve my overall attitude. This is why I am starting a study with several other online friends with the book, How to Have…
