Happy New Year! May God bless you and your family in all you do, and fill you with gratitude, wisdom, and joy as you go through your days. I, too, pray for wisdom, gratitude, and joy this year. That is probably why my New Year’s thoughts are somewhat different for 2015. Rather than focusing directly on […]
Planning
Review: Growing Up Social by Chapman and Pellicane
All parents sometimes wonder about the amount of time their children spend interacting with screens. Most of us question, at least occasionally, if it is a good thing. But, since we are the first generation of parents to deal with these issues, we often do not even know exactly what the issues are, let alone […]
Online AP English Language and Composition
Sometimes our teens progress to the point where we homeschool moms need outside support. Miss 17, who has penned several novels, whose comments are popular on national news sites, and who reads much more than I do, needs more advanced teaching in reading and writing nonfiction than I can provide. We are very grateful to […]
Reading Week
“Tomorrow Reading Week starts,” Miss 12 sighed happily Sunday night. Reading Week, an annual tradition, is one of the joys of our homeschool. We long for it, dream of it, plan for it, and now, finally, it is here. With over 200 books expected from inter-branch loan in our huge city-wide library system, our house will be awash in […]
Older Students Need Attention, Too
Our homeschools go through seasons. Sometimes we can predict them, but once in a while we are surprised. My surprise this year is that I need to spend more time on homeschooling than I did last year, even though the girls are (obviously) older. You see, this year each of the girls is being stretched. […]