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Cooking Up Curiosity: Simple Recipes for Home Ec

Cooking Up Curiosity: Simple Recipes for Home Ec

Home Ec Recipes for Every Age: Simple and Fun Cooking recipes together is a quick go-to home ec task that can be informal and fun. Whether you are making a snack or cooking a whole meal together, there are endless learning opportunities that your child probably won’t even realize! Here are some quick things your child can learn while they are cooking/baking with you: Recipes for Your Little Homeschooler While these recipes may be challenging for a little child to…

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Top Five Best Buys for Your Homeschool

Top Five Best Buys for Your Homeschool

The Essential Best Buys for Starting Your Homeschool on the Right Foot No matter where you live or how many children you are homeschooling, there are many must-have items to get started. Here are our picks as the essentials and best buys to get started: Best Buy: Printer Our Pick: Brother Printer Our Brother Printer is a bit older model but is still working after years and years of use. Pros Cons Best Buys: Notebooks & Binders Our Picks: Walmart…

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When Homeschooling Becomes Frustrating

When Homeschooling Becomes Frustrating

Whether you are a married couple, single or are grandparents going through the journey of homeschooling, there are times that it will be frustrating. Whether you are a seasoned homeschooler or brand new, there are always challenges and frustrations that get in the way of homeschooling. But hang on and persevere. Here are some tried and true tips to get you through those tough seasons. Frustrated! Curriculum/Subject Issues Frustrated! Organization Issues It’s Normal to Be Frustrated It’s normal to feel…

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When Your Homeschool Schedule Goes Rogue

When Your Homeschool Schedule Goes Rogue

How to Reschedule and Evaluate your Schedule when it goes Rogue and Wild How to Fix Your Rogue Schedule Sometimes Life Happens… This year for us was a challenge for our typical organized school schedule. Each month we had another issue – from an unexpected injury to appliances breaking, then a car breaking down and sickness. But life happens. Although these issues can be solved and we continue forward, it still presents a challenge when it comes to homeschooling. The…

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Websites We LOVE to Use Everyday

Websites We LOVE to Use Everyday

From the everyday to curriculum and more, there’s always a resource for reviews, extra worksheet practice or just general ideas. Here are some we have accumulated over the decade that work well for us. Some of these we find we use everyday for worksheet practice or general research. Other websites are helpful in a pinch or on those days you need more reference for a subject. Dive in. It’s taken us a while to accumulate good quality websites that give…

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Simple Ways to Motivate Your Unmotivated Child

Simple Ways to Motivate Your Unmotivated Child

How to Help My Lazy or Unmotivated Child Structure Clear expectations Staying calm Being patient Discipline How do I help my unmotivated child succeed? Many of us know that temptation to scream at our unmotivated child when that child has skipped another math lesson (or any other school subject) for the third day in a row and now they are crying and wailing on the floor saying they just can’t do it because it’s too hard. Or what about the…

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Which Homeschooling Program is the Best?

Which Homeschooling Program is the Best?

The homeschool program that is best depends solely on you, your schedule and your children. What are your goals? Which homeschool program is best? Which program could work for me? We know families who do school with actual desks, paper, pencil and white board and it works fantastic for their kids. Others we know do un-schooling where literally everything in life is the lesson and standard textbooks don’t exist. For our family, we focus a lot more on independent work,…

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