A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink
Cozy and Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
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Way back in 2007 I wrote Have You Prayed for Paris Hilton? At the time, this celebrity was everywhere in the news and, in fact, in prison. I just pulled my post out of the unpublished archives and republished it because it ties in with what I’m going to say today. I’d appreciate it if …
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Sallie’s Miscellany features links, ideas, books, printables, products, and deals. Please remember the inclusion of a link is not an endorsement of the content, author, and/or website. Peace On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens from Cal Newport So if you are short on time… When people contemplate the declutter process I suggest …
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We’ve made the official move to year round homeschooling which I’ll address in another post. Today I wanted to share what we’re doing for Science this summer and the following four months. We’re taking a relaxed, living books approach to this and I think we’ve hit a home run with it. (I’ll share more in …
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Nature study is a very popular topic in homeschooling circles right now, especially thanks to those who follow a Charlotte Mason style of education. And while I think most everyone would agree that the idea of nature study is a great one, it often doesn’t work for some families for any number of reasons. These …
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When I went through my teacher education program, whole language was all the rage. If you aren’t familiar with the term, whole language basically means that children learn words as whole pieces of language. This is in contrast to phonics in which children are taught to decode words with the rules they learn about letters, …
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One of the things I am passionate about is helping parents understand their child’s learning and personality needs. I have dozens of posts on this website about tailoring our parenting and homeschooling to our child’s unique bent whether she is right-brained, gifted, twice-exceptional, spirited, highly-sensitive, or wired differently in some other way. But I also …
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One of my blogging friends, Jimmie, wrote What My (Messy) Artist Daughter Has Taught Me. I totally got that post as I had been thinking about the struggles of being a neat person who likes everything in its place when your child isn’t anything like that. It sounds like my Caroline and Jimmie’s Emma are …
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As if homeschooling our children isn’t enough, many of us also decide to add working at home to the mix. I still haven’t decided if we’re blessed to be able to work at home or totally crazy. Probably a bit of both. I began working at home as a writer when I decided to leave …
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Sallie’s Miscellany features links, ideas, books, printables, products, and deals. Please remember the inclusion of a link is not an endorsement of the content, author, and/or website. Peace g. Donna’s If you like vintage and old-fashioned homemaking, you will want to check out this site I found recently. I love history so I find these …
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Sallie’s Miscellany features links, ideas, books, printables, products, and deals. Please remember the inclusion of a link is not an endorsement of the content, author, and/or website. Peace Smartphones Are Toys First, Tools Second from Raptitude I was a very late adopter of a smart phone and I would be hesitant to give it up. …
