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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The World is Mine
The World is Mine Today upon a bus I saw A girl with golden hair; She seemed so gay, I envied her, And wish that I were half so fair; I watched her as she rose to leave, And saw her hobble down the aisle. She had one […]
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- Gratitude Journal
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- 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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