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Am I Making The Right Decisions As A Parent? Believe In Yourself
Being a parent is hard. Am I doing the right thing? Am I doing enough? How can I be a be a better parent? Am I making the right decisions as a parent? Sometimes, as human beings, we find ourselves questioning what we are going. Whether it be the job we are doing, the home we choose to live in, or seemingly minor things like the food we put into our body. When you become a parent, some of these questions become even more stressful. You are making decisions that will impact more lives than just your own. Parenting is hard. Often times we question ourselves. Am I Making The…
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Resources For New Readers
Teaching a young child to read can be the most rewarding and the most frustrating thing you can do as an educator. All of my children have learned to read in different ways and at different ages. We do not like to push this skill, as we believe that a stressful beginning to this journey will hinder the enjoyment down the road. We like skills to develop naturally and on pace with the individual child. One misconception about unschooling is that we do not teach our children. This is not true. We just do not teach our children in a traditional, curriculum related way. If you want to hear the…
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Please Don’t Quiz Child – Homeschool Storytime
While at the grocery store, my homeschool children were quizzed by a random stranger. This is our story...
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Questions For A Homeschool Mom
There are so many misconceptions about what homeschooling really is. The main reason for these misconceptions is that all homeschoolers are lumped together into one big category when, in reality, there are so many different types of homeschooling and homeschoolers. We are life learners or unschoolers. This does not mean that we do not educate our children. That is a misconception for another post. We do educate our children, just not in a very obvious way. There is no desk work, no worksheets, no classroom. Learning encompasses our entire life, and we learn through being apart of the world around us. I was recently invited to do a video collaboration on YouTube. …
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Top 3 Reasons Why We Homeschool
Making the decision to homeschool can be a hard decision to make. For some, it is a no-brainer. Perhaps you were homeschooled and it just makes sense in your mind and heart for you to homeschool your children. Perhaps it has always been how you wanted to teach your children. For others, deciding to homeschool can be a difficult decision. There are many factors that go into the decision-making process. We weighed the pros and the cons but knew deep in our hearts that we were destined to be homeschoolers. What are our reasons? Being There For Milestones Many parents think of milestones for their babies. Once they get to…
