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14 Tips to Surviving a Homeschool Conference
Home School Conferences are an amazing time to reaffirm your commitment to homeschooling. Let’s face it some years, months or days can be difficult to get through. Challenges can sometimes leave us feeling tired and weary. We all need a plan of different actionable tasks to keep us on course, energized and prepared as we ride the ebb and flow of our homeschooling lives. One part of my action plan is to attend the local Home School Conference. It is a time for me to get out, to reconnect and feed my homeschooling vision. Conference has always left me
Fitness and teens (and the wee ones too!)
Fitness and Teens Homeschooling and fitness for teenagers can be a tough mix. Traditional schooling provides one type of framework with team sports and after school activities. To keep your kids fit and not giving you the eyeroll you’ll have to come up with some out of the box ideas. Here’s a few to get you started … League sports. Similar to high school athletic programs there are lots of private leagues your kid can join. They might be mixing in with adults or it might be specifically geared to teens. As a kid I couldn’t get enough of soccer and there weren’t any school programs
23 Reasons Why We HomeSchool
Homeschooling is a is funny thing, it takes people who usually mind their own business and transforms them into out spoken, inquisitive folk. The first question they will ask you is WHY? I used to really dislike getting bombarded with this question since it seemed like no matter what I said for my reasons why we chose to homeschool, they never seemed to be enough to satisfy those who were asking. Then I had a bit of a revelation… The Power of WHY Knowing your why will empower you in your: home school life business relationships sports workouts…..etc. The list
Do or Do Not…There is No Try, Advice from Yoda
From the title you can probably guess I homeschool boys, in fact I have 2 boys and a girl, and Star Wars is running theme in my house! Lights sabers slashing against each other the battle of good and evil is fought out, the good side prevails and the princess is once again rescued. Often I hear my kids quoting the Jedi Master Yoda and yes my husband has joined in too. I think he is in his glory right now, they love to build things, they love hockey (oh do they love hockey I get stat reports everyday…lol), and
Why Do You Want to Homeschool?
I follow Carrie Wilkerson, she has a great perspective on business which I find can translate very well to everyday life. I recently watched an episode called “Your Why” and instantly thought of our homeschool. Although it pertains to business, it relates closely to us moms and dads who have decided to homeschool. Why did you start? What prompted you to research homeschooling in the very beginning? Every homeschooling family will have different reasons and we also share some common reasons too. Some of My Why: I started because sending my sweet children off to Kindergarten did not seem
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