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Planning

You, Your Teen’s Guidance Counsellor

  If you, a homeschooling mom, have teens, you need to become their guidance counsellor.  Yes, really.  Who else is going to guide them through the maze of questions about their future?  Help them discover what they want to be?  Tell them about jobs, apprenticeships, mentors, college, financial aid, scholarships, admission tests?  No one.  It’s […]

Review: College Admission and Scholarships by Lee Binz

So here you are, looking at homeschooling high school.  So many people outsource these best and most important years of homeschooling because they feel inadequate.  They think they might fail their child.  And while that is technically possible, every diligent homeschooling parent can succeed with all the fantastic resources available these days. One resource that […]

Oops! Minimizing Planning Blind Spots

While planning the school year, I keep in mind each child’s interests, strong points, and weak points.  I think of topics that perhaps they would love to learn but don’t know about yet, options that could help them succeed at the things they are struggling with, and how to help them excel at what they […]

What Are You Learning This Year? 6 Tips for Moms

One of the joys of being an older homeschooling mom is that I have more time to learn along with my children.  Last year I learned a lot about Bible, history, and literature by going through Omnibus with my teens.  I have time to take pictures of flowers and insects, like the one above.  One […]

Our Curriculum For Next Year (Grades 6, 8 and 11)

For the first time ever, I finished planning next year’s curriculum in June!  It helps that I’ve gone through each of the grades and all of this material before.  And now I can look forward to a much more peaceful summer, with no curriculum choices hanging over my head. Our big ‘together project’ this year will be […]