There are times when I worry that maybe I’m not teaching my children enough.  The parents around me talk about the hours they spend “doing school” while our family is through before many of them get up.  It doesn’t help when I read about children getting college degrees at the ripe ole age of 10 […]

It’s out of control. The day is half gone, no one has done any work (school, home, or otherwise) and tempers are already on the edge. I give up.

I know I’m not the only homeschool mom who has had a day like this. There have even been a few weeks that were […]

I am a home schooling mom.  Some people immediately picture a long haired, hippy chick who doesn’t shave under her arms.  That’s not me.  (Although that does describe my cousin)  Other people probably are picturing me in a long skirt and a bun with a dozen kids trailing behind me.  Again, not me.  You could […]

When my children were just four and two, my husband and I first kicked around the idea of homeschooling.  We had no idea what it was (other than an alternative to sending them to public school), but we had the internet.  So we started surfing.

My sons are now ten and eight, and we’ve added another […]

At it’s very basic, homeschooling is just schooling your children at home.  The reasons to homeschool and the ways to homeschool vary from family to family and from child to child.
For our family, it was a prayerful decision.  It required a sacrifice in finances (we were a two income household), family (there are some members […]