A few days ago, I asked my Twitter buddies (whom you really ought to join by following me here) a question. I was joking, but as it turns out, lots of homeschoolers do that very thing! Our own Barb replied that she did that, and her kids don’t seem to have suffered from it. So [...]

One of the big advantages of homeschooling (or so I’m told) is that we can take more and better field trips than the average class of twenty-odd kids and a couple of adults can manage. Unfortunately for my school age kids, I haven’t got the gumption to take them on dozens of field trips every [...]

Hello, Friday! How did you get here so quickly, and what have you done with my plans for the week? I know they were around here somewhere… Sigh. Here we are at the end of another week, and my lesson plans lie in the dust. Given the circumstances, I’m actually thrilled to have gotten even [...]

After our first 45 days of school (is it really possible we’ve gotten that far into the year yet?), I took a good look around me, apparently for the first time in 45 days. The floors were crunchy and unmopped, it looked like slugs had been tracing the outlines of little hands on all the [...]

I think every mom comes in for her own fair share of guilt from time to time. Whether it’s because you completely forgot to brush someone’s teeth every morning for a week, or something more serious, like yelling at a child instead of patiently correcting him (not that I would ever do these things), there [...]

OK, so not all homeschoolers have a dozen children. I’ve met many, many homeschoolers with just one or two kids. In fact, I’ve seen parents with only one practically apologize for not having more, like they’re letting down the team or something. (We’re not judging you, honest.) For the most part, when I meet with [...]

With cooler weather descending on the High Country, I find myself torn between gathering my little chicks indoors to prepare for the cozy, homey days of winter and running outdoors every time the sun shows its face so we can soak up the last, waning rays of summer. Since I can never decide whether I [...]

Most of my friends don’t homeschool. In conversations about our family lives, we often end up staring at each other blankly, uncertain how to encourage one another, because our challenges are so different. I have one friend who can’t even imagine not blocking off at least a couple of hours a week for “family time” [...]