My Life as a One-and-Done Teacher and Homeschooler
We start our homeschool year tomorrow so I have been organizing materials and preparing. This is the first year I’ve purchased multiple curriculum selections that include a printed student …
INFJ Mom Homeschooling an INFP Daughter
In the not-too-distant past, I decided to stop discussing personality types on here for various reasons mostly related to faith. I had already thoroughly rejected even the idea of the Enneagram …
Discipleship Homeschooling – Our Homeschool Philosophy
We’re approaching the end of our homeschooling journey with just two more years to go after this one. I’ve done a lot of reflecting on what we’ve done to get to this point. Like most …
What Do Quiet and Simple Mean To Me Today?
Many years ago I started using “A Quiet Simple Life’ as a part of my blogging. Over the weekend I had an epiphany of sorts as I realized the way I think about this phrase has changed. In …
What Is Worthy Of My Child’s Time?
When homeschooling was new and the homeschool pioneers were fighting for the opportunity to legally teach their children in the home, they put together a course of study however they could. There was …
Children Are Not Robots or Machines
We’re relaxed homeschoolers for a number of reasons. One of the chief reasons is because we see ourselves primarily as a family. We’re a family who learns together while putting a high …
Choosing Our Relaxed Homeschooling High School Path
To say I’ve been in a little bit of an existential crisis regarding our homeschooling choices for high school would be somewhat accurate. A reader wrote and asked if I had written about our high …
Relaxed Homeschooling Curriculum Choices For Eighth Grade
We are now homeschooling eighth grade. I wanted to share our relaxed homeschooling curriculum choices for this year. With Caroline’s input, I’ve put together an interesting collection of …
Curious Unschoolers & Radical Unschool Love
Newly arrived in my home are the books Curious Unschoolers and Radical Unschool Love written by my online friend, Sue Elvis, of Stories of an Unschooling Family. I’m looking forward to diving …
Relaxed Homeschooling In Seventh Grade
Last year I wrote about relaxed homeschooling in middle school. I shared our plans for not just last year but the middle school years in general. It was interesting to go back and read it just now to …