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I recently posted an article to Homeschooling with Heart about families reading aloud together, and it got me thinking about my own family reading over the years. My family reads together almost everyday. We usually have one or more novels (usually historical fiction) that we’re reading at any given time. This is one of our [...]
We have three computers in our house – in our living room, actually – a desktop and two laptops. Nick and James use the desktop mostly, to play games, do typing lessons, and visit websites. I use my laptop primarily for work but also for personal things and for planning homeschool lessons [...] My family likes to travel. In the past year, we’ve been to Washington, D.C., the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Pipestem Resort State Park in West Virginia, and Jeffersonville, IN/Louisville, KY – along with a few day trips nearby. As all parents know, traveling long distances with kids can be more of a nightmare [...] I have a few confessions to make. My house is a pigsty about 75% of the time. I hate cleaning. Mopping and vacuuming and wiping counters, I can handle – but the constant picking up is for the birds. When I tell my kids to do something, instead of obeying me, they ignore me, argue, [...] I’ve been thinking lately how homeschooling doesn’t happen during set hours, and I’m learning that I shouldn’t ever expect it to. Many times, soooo many times, I have worked up a new schedule for us to follow – sometimes my schedule is loose, just telling how many days per week I want to accomplish each [...] |
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