Before You Plan Your Homeschool Year {Free Printable}
Homeschool planning is obviously a big deal for moms because everyone has an opinion (and blog post) about how it should be done. I confess that as a relaxed homeschooler I am much more of a …
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Homeschool planning is obviously a big deal for moms because everyone has an opinion (and blog post) about how it should be done. I confess that as a relaxed homeschooler I am much more of a …
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 …
Last year I wrote a series of posts called Raising Gifted Children in the Christian Faith (first post here and all posts here). If you haven’t read that series, I encourage you to read it first …
Homeschooling is a powerful choice for many families. Over the past ten years home education has become the learning method of choice for a wide range of families from all political, religious, and …
We don’t do Santa. It was a very deliberate choice. In fact, it was a choice David and I made before we ever had a child. For us, it came down to the exact same reason my parents did not do …
My post Gifted Children in the Classroom From A Teacher’s Perspective recently sparked a discussion on social media. The topic (described as one of the elephants in the room) is that …
One of the things I loved about early blogging (circa 2005) was it provided a way to chat about everyday life with people online. I’d write a few thoughts, people would respond, I’d …
How old is your gifted child? When did you realize your child was gifted? Was there a certain lightbulb moment or event? I have two children, my son, C who is 8, and my daughter, J who is 4. For my …
How old is your gifted child? When did you realize your child was gifted? My gifted child is almost nine years old. I began the process of realizing she was gifted when another blogger invited me to …
This week I had planned to do a series on Homeschooling with a Chronic Illness as part of a blog hop. But when the time came to write the posts, I realized I was tired of living mentally in the hard …