Emily with the journals she wrote growing up!
Come take a peek inside my homeschool. Here’s how I teach writing! And it works—one of my sons got a perfect score on the English portion of the ACT test for college.
- New to Homeschooling
- Homeschooling: You Can Do It!
- What Does Homeschooling Look Like?
- Facing the First Day
- Advice to the New Homeschooling Mom
- Is Homeschooling for You?
- For the New Homeschooler
- Is Homeschooling Too Hard?
- Newly Out of Public School and Resistant
- I Want to Homeschool
- Homeschooling Myths
- Top 20 Advantages to Homeschooling
- How to Homeschool
- Method
- A Spoonful of Sugar: My Philosophy of Homeschooling
- The “1/3 Plan” for Kids
- Lest We Forget
- An Educational Approach
- Setting Up a Family Schedule
- An Assignment Chart for Young Homeschoolers
- A Way to Grade
- Study Schedule
- Co-op School—Add Zip to Your Homeschool!
- Jump In
- Tomorrow
- Getting Kids to Do Their Schoolwork
- Are You Really Covering Everything?
- Fifteen Years of Research in the Homeschool “Lab”
- Homeschooling Ideas that Work!
- A Day in our Homeschool Kindergarten
- Keeping First Grader Happy
- Interruptions
- Using Muscles for Memory
- Just Wants to Play
- Let’s Go Exploring: The Best Education
- My Cantaloupe Man
- Minimum Daily Requirement
- School in Summer?
- Summer Skills Maintenance
- An Elective Summer
- Sing Christmas!
- Junior High Years . . . and on into High School
- Mom’s Sanity
- Don’t Serve From an Empty Platter
- Overwhelmed
- What’s it Like to Be a Boy?
- Kids to the Rescue! Training Children to Do Housekeeping
- Towel Overload
- Adrift on a Sea of “To-Do’s”?
- Having a Bad (Homeschool) Day?
- What to Do with a Restless Little Boy?
- Easy Exercise
- Worn Out from Teaching
- Wonderful, Wonderful Chores!
- Demanding Toddler
- Need a Homeschool Break?
- All My Kids Do is Complain
- Rotate Your Toys
- Plan B: Difficult Pregnancy
- Too Tired!
- Homeschool with a Baby
- Take A Walk!
- Concerns
- Not Organized, Not Perfect
- Keeping on Grade Level
- A Child’s Self-Confidence: Handle with Care
- A Plea to Homeschoolers: Do it!
- Shouldn’t You Be in School?
- My Child is Behind in School
- To Test or Not To Test? That is the Question
- Do I Need to Test My Child?
- Gifted Child
- Siblings Progressing at Different Rates
- A Small Price
- Son’s Career Planning
- Burnout
- Illness
- What to Do with Baby?
- Managing with a Baby
- Family Acceptance
- Husband Won’t Let Me Homeschool
- Daddy’s Thoughts about Homeschooling
- Eleven Year Itch
- The Homeschooled Teen: Surviving or Thriving?
- Homeschool through High School?
- Social
- Goals
- Method
- What Do I Use to Homeschool?
- Why Homeschool?
- Nurturing
- Public School or Homeschool?
- First, a Relationship
- What Will You Trade Your Time For?
- Picking Away at Happiness
- Happy Girl
- Double Vision
- The Singing House
- A Work that Matters
- Doing the Little Things
- It’s Mom…Not Fisher-Price
- Mommy Playing
- Come Play With Me
- My “Anti-Busting” Campaign
- Big Bear Hugs
- Self-Sufficient Little Ones
- Knowing Who You Came From
- Doldrum Buster!
- Toy Night
- Talent Show!
- Molding the Heart
- Why Did You Decide to Homeschool?
- Mary Poppins’ Method
- Be That Person
- An Attitude
- You Go First
- The King of Me
- Mama’s Boy
- Gratitude Journal
- Gray Hair
- Desert Thoughts
- Humility
- The World is Mine
- Kind at Home
- The Best Character Building Stories for Children!
- Priscilla Stories
- Heroes
- The Family Bible
- Making Sunday Special
- Company’s Coming!
- Company Manners
- Chivalry, It’s Up to Us!
- Communal Comparison
- Parenting
- Training A Child in the Way He Should Go
- Never Reward Negative Behavior
- Don’t “Un-train” Your Kids!
- It’s Up to Us, Mom!
- Don’t Ask Twice
- Soak in the Joy!
- Want Cooperation?
- Why Listen?
- Clones Clones Clones Clones Clones
- We’ll Be Looking in the Mirror
- Oh, Susanna!
- The Silent Work of Women
- The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
- Who God Trusts
- Excuse this House
- The Girl I Used to Be
- Farm Wisdom
- Wisdom from Jefferson
- Pass It On
- No Children!
- I’m at Wit’s End with My Child!
- How to Stop Bickering, Pestering, Fighting, Teasing…
- Spanking, Anyone?
- More Flies with Honey
- Mad Kids & Work
- Mad Teenagers
- Precious Body
- That Indispensable Gift Box
- Eating All the Time
- Teaching Kids to Interrupt Politely
- Stop Talking
- Magic Words
- Paper Clip Social Skills
- Polite Answers
- Sweet Civility
- Academic
- Nurturing
- Q & A
- Videos
- Shop
- Blog
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Asking Why
“Why do I have to do this English page, Mom?” Why do you teach your children Language Arts? What are you hoping to accomplish? What is the goal, the end of the road? It is so essential for me to keep that end-of-the-road milepost in constant remembrance! Without it, we quickly get side-tracked into reflexive […]
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- Gratitude Journal
- Gray Hair
- Chivalry, It’s Up to Us!
- Communal Comparison
- Desert Thoughts
- Company’s Coming!
- Be That Person
- Company Manners
- Humility
- Heroes
- Mama’s Boy
- Asking Why
- Kind at Home
- You Go First
- The Family Bible
- The World is Mine
- Mary Poppins’ Method
- The Best Character Building Stories for Children!
- Making Sunday Special
- An Attitude
- Why Did You Decide to Homeschool?
- Priscilla Stories
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