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Why Homeschool? How Home Learning Provides Better Socialization
This week, I continue my series on reasons to homeschool, with a look at socialization, and why it is one of the greatest benefits of homeschooling. If you’ve spent any time at all homeschooling your...
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Why Homeschool? – Retaining Sibling Relationships
Another instalment in the “Why Homeschool?” series, this one looks at sustaining and deepening sibling relationships. When I look ahead in our lives as homeschoolers, I sometimes find it hard to...
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Why Homeschool? Towards Work-Life Balance
There are so many wonderful reasons to homeschool, most of which speak to the benefits to your children. This week, I am sharing one of the best holistic reasons to homeschool: achieving work-life...
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How to Reduce Your Stress in 5 Easy Steps
Welcome to a new season! This is the season where many homeschoolers are in the home stretch. Spring break is nearing, or completed, for school-going peers, and some homeschoolers have completed...
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Breaking the Cycle of Consumerism
This week, a few musings on simplicity, cleaning out and raising satisfied kids. For the past few weeks, I’ve been working my way (albeit slowly) through Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne. It’s...
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Sibling Fun: 5 Activities To Engage the Youngest Family Members
My favourite days are the ones when we hit on something that both of my children enjoy. Finding those glorious activities that encourage sibling play (especially when one of those siblings is under...
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Homeschooling With a Bit of Help?
Well, it’s been a long time between posts – too long – and thanks to all of you who are still reading this, after such a long hiatus. It’s been an extremely busy few months in our household, and all...
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How Blogging Helps Homeschoolers
Blogging is fun. It builds community, connects you with people around the world, and fills your mind with ideas. Sometimes too many ideas! I honestly can’t say what the past year would have been...
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Why Behaviour-Based Parenting Misses the Mark
I’ve been musing about parenting lately, and thinking about what kind of parent I am, and why that is. Is it deliberate? A product of my own upbringing? Am I the kind of parent I want to be? Well,...
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Always Rushing
Our family has been extremely busy lately. My husband and I have opened a new business (in case you’re wondering where on earth I’ve been). That, coupled with our son’s first year of homeschooling –...
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Letting it Percolate
If your family is anything like mine, whole days can go by without any formal learning taking place. Emphasis on formal (in contrast, not a day goes by without any learning taking place). Our...
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Does Allowance Discourage Teamwork?
Sometimes I like to jump to the conclusion that, just because we are homeschooling, we differ from the norm in everything. Take my latest quandry: allowance. For whatever reason, my son has had a...
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August: Homeschool Planning Time?!
The month of August is upon us and I’m simultaneously struck by an urge to preserve the summer – hang on with every fibre of my being – and plan. Yep, that’s right. As soon as the first day of the...
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Celebrating May Day With A Pocketful of Wildflowers
I don’t know about you, but May is always an exciting month in our homeschool. It is the month where we start to wind things down, wrap things up and, hopefully, congratulate ourselves on a year well...
View ArticleYou Are What You Do, Not What You Say
The other morning, I was elbow-deep in dishes, when my son piped up. “You are what you do, not what you say.” “Where did you hear that from?” “I don’t know. It’s just true.” You are what you do, not...
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