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Homeschool Relationships

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Curious Unschoolers & Radical Unschool Love

December 17, 2019//  by Sallie

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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 into them in the days ahead. Instead of ordering them for myself, I requested that my library system purchase them. Why? So other …

Category: Homeschool Relationships

Homeschooling a Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities (LBLD)

June 19, 2019//  by Sallie

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When I submitted my name to review Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities, I thought it would be worth checking out as something to maybe refer to from time to time. I thought it would be worth knowing about the book in case it might be helpful for some of my readers either now or …

Category: Gifted/2e Homeschooling, Homeschool RelationshipsTag: Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Twice-Exceptional (2e)

AQSL 003: Don’t Raise Snowplowed Sauce Girls

May 10, 2019//  by Sallie

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What are snowplowed sauce girls? Take a listen to Episode 3 of A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink. We’re breaking down what this means, where it comes from, and how to avoid it in our homes. As always, please feel free to leave a comment. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this topic! …

Category: A Quiet Simple Life Podcast, Gracious Christian Parenting, Homeschool Relationships, Only ChildTag: Tweens

My Homeschooling and Parenting Guest Posts for Bright Ideas Press 2

My Homeschooling and Parenting Guest Posts for Bright Ideas Press

May 3, 2019//  by Sallie

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A few years ago, I was a guest blogger for Bright Ideas Press. If you aren’t familiar with Bright Ideas Press, they offer a wide variety of homeschool support such as: extensive and excellent homeschool curriculum live and self-paced online classes through The Academy a card game (I just think this looks neat! LOL!) a …

Category: Homeschool Relationships

Gifted Women Struggling with Motherhood and Homeschooling

December 4, 2018//  by Sallie

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The oft-repeated story is that if you are in a plane and the oxygen masks drop, you always put on your own mask first. Once your mask is on, you are free to help others without endangering your own well-being. The point of the story is that we need to take care of ourselves first …

Category: Gifted & 2e, Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool RelationshipsTag: Asynchronous Development in Gifted/2e Children, Gifted Adults

Enjoying a Simple Homeschool {Free Printable}

August 27, 2018//  by Sallie

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Homeschooling offers the opportunity to create strong family bonds that are filled with joy because, above all else, homeschooling is about relationships. Yes, learning academic subjects is important. Children need an education that includes learning how to write, do math, and so on. But if it comes at the expense of the parent-child relationship (or …

Category: Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool Relationships, Homeschooling, Simple LivingTag: The Simple Life Library

The Importance of Deschooling The Homeschool Mom 2

The Importance of Deschooling the Homeschool Mom

May 8, 2017//  by Sallie

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Since all of us were educated in some way, we all carry certain expectations regarding what education should look like. I attended public school from kindergarten through college. I then took my teaching degree and taught in various private, Christian, Classical Christian, and Hillsdale model schools. One might think that my broad experience would be …

Category: Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool Planning, Homeschool Relationships

Choose Your Five Homeschool People Carefully

August 6, 2016//  by Sallie

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I don’t know who said it first, but the idea is that you become like the five people you spend the most time with. So if you want to see who you will be in ten years, look at the people you are spending the most time with every week. I’ve looked back over my …

Category: Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool RelationshipsTag: 10 Days of Homeschool Encouragement

Creating Your Family’s Homeschool Atmosphere {Free Printable}

July 14, 2016//  by Sallie

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Whether intentional or accidental, we all have an atmosphere in our home. Mine does. Yours does. Some homeschoolers put a lot of thought into their homeschool atmosphere. The concept has never even crossed the mind of others. The atmosphere will include a wide variety of things including: Faith & Values Food & Meals Learning Music …

Category: Homeschool RelationshipsTag: 10 Days of Homeschool Encouragement, Beauty

Why We’re Relaxed Homeschoolers (and Not Unschoolers)

May 23, 2016//  by Sallie

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Of everything that has happened to me as a parent, perhaps nothing has surprised me more than the fact that we ended up relaxed homeschoolers. Homeschooling was always on my radar. Relaxed homeschooling was not. I have a teaching degree. I was in a specialized program that focused on creating effective learning curriculum. How is …

Category: Homeschool Relationships, Relaxed Homeschooling

Age Disequilibrium and Homeschooling Stress 2

Age Disequilibrium and Homeschooling Stress

June 1, 2015//  by Sallie

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Several years ago I became aware of the idea of age disequilibrium. It answered many of my questions regarding how a child’s behavior could change so drastically over the period of a few months. I wrote at one point about my perplexity with the half year disequilibrium at three and a half years. If you …

Category: Homeschool Planning, Homeschool RelationshipsTag: Overcoming Homeschool Stress

When Homeschooling is Hard - The Day I Called the Public Elementary School 2

When Homeschooling is Hard – The Day I Called the Public Elementary School

March 11, 2015//  by Sallie

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If you receive my newsletter, you already know that the past couple of weeks were tough. I mentioned in the last newsletter that I was calling the previous week my Homeschool Mom Professional Development Week to put a positive spin on it. (If you aren’t getting my weekly newsletter, you’re missing out! You can subscribe …

Category: Gifted/2e Homeschooling, Gifted/2e Parenting, Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool RelationshipsTag: Twice-Exceptional (2e)

Saying No To Homeschool Pressures 2

Saying “No” to Homeschool Pressures

January 17, 2015//  by Sallie

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If you’ve been homeschooling for any length of time, you know that it comes with its own set of pressures. Choosing a homeschool philosophy, curriculum, how you structure your day, and outside activities can all bring out very strong opinions among homeschoolers. Those are the external pressures. There are also internal pressures. Let’s look at …

Category: Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool RelationshipsTag: 5 Days of Saying "No", Perfectionism

Relationship Homeschooling and Your Differently-Wired Child 2

Relationship Homeschooling and Your Differently-Wired Child

October 21, 2014//  by Sallie

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When I started blogging in 2005, a woman named Karen with a blog named from the prairie left a comment on my blog which was then called Two Talent Living. I’m not certain how we initially connected, but I’m guessing it was through a website neither one of us would recommend now! LOL! Over the …

Category: Homeschool Relationships

The Gift of Aspergers 2

The Gift of Asperger’s

October 9, 2014//  by Sallie

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Today’s post is by Karen Campbell of thatmom. She is also the author of The Joy of Relationship Homeschooling: when the one anothers come home. Our son, Will, turned 26 a couple of months ago. Our fifth born, he devours history, enjoys all kinds of music, and remembers random details better than anyone I know. …

Category: Gifted/2e Parenting, Homeschool Relationships

From Chaos to Computer Science – Homeschooling a Very ADHD Son

October 1, 2014//  by Sallie

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Today’s guest post is by Brenda Nuland of Coffee, Tea, Books and Me. My children were born twelve years apart. My daughter’s first day at the University was the same day my son began Kindergarten. Same husband. Same marriage. Definitely God’s sense of timing and not mine. But we were thrilled to have a son …

Category: Gifted/2e Homeschooling, Gifted/2e Parenting, Homeschool Relationships

7 Keys to Homeschool Success

February 20, 2014//  by Sallie

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Homeschooling is a journey. A long race, not a sprint. When I am sometimes tempted to look too closely at the failure of a lesson or day (or week!) and blow it completely out of proportion compared to the overall success of the rest of our homeschooling journey, I remind myself of these seven keys …

Category: Homeschool Relationships

Parenting and Homeschooling as an Introvert 2

Parenting and Homeschooling as an Introvert

August 11, 2012//  by Sallie

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The past few weeks have been hard. I hit the proverbial wall this week and it all had to do with being so strongly introverted. Parenting and homeschooling as an introvert is hard. On the bright side, I think God allowed me to realize something in the midst of it. Singleness and childlessness were two …

Category: Homeschool Mom Life, Homeschool Relationships, Our Family LifeTag: Introverts

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