Getting Started with Charlotte Mason

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  Getting started with Charlotte Mason can seem overwhelming. If you ask inside a homeschool centered Facebook group “What is Charlotte Mason?”, you will soon be inundated with phrases like: “It’s reading lots of living books.“ “Nature study and lots of time outside.“ “It’s great for the early years but not enough for older students.
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Finishing the Homeschool Race Well, Mama

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  Our family went on a bike ride this weekend. We felt like the Von Trapp family as eight of us cycled down the road and onto the bike path. We sang and laughed and enjoyed God’s creation. The feeling of content that we have when the whole family is together is like no other.
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Should You Homeschool Your Pediatric Stroke Survivor?

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  The day that my second son was born, homeschooling was an option that was on my radar as I had many friends and family members who had homeschooled their children.  When my newborn baby began having a seizure in my arms, it set us on a course that would eventually cement this decision. When
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Family Road Trip to Explore American History

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  July gets me thinking of our heritage of freedom and how much fun it would be to take a family road trip to explore early American history. Freedom is a precious gift that Americans treasure, knowing that freedom has been preserved for future generations at the cost of innocent lives. Taking our children to
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The Ultimate How-To Guide for New Homeschoolers

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  Welcome, new homeschoolers! Are you all in? Nervous? Excited? This how-to homeschool guide is intended to provide new homeschooling families with the understanding, tools, and confidence needed to get started. Countless homeschool success stories precede you. Now, it’s your turn!   Is Homeschooling Legal? Legally, you are allowed to homeschool your children in all
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Hey Mama Monday: Mama, I Want to Give Up (But I Won’t!)

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  Before you say, “I Quit!” I want to encourage you to think otherwise. Let me just say that there is probably at least one day a month or more that I want to say, “I Quit!” to something in my life, whether it be teaching, cleaning, cooking, transporting, or disciplining a child. We all
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Using Literature to Teach Measurement

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  Many of us use a curriculum to teach math, but using literature to teach math can be a great teaching tool. I am continuing this math literature series with some of the best books to teach measurement. With my love for literature and math, it only makes sense to combine the two so I
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How to Best Ready our Kids for Navigating a Changing World

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  Spring 2020 – the spring where graduations, birthday parties, and even a wedding or two took place via Zoom, if they happened at all.  Online scavenger hunts and digital escape rooms became part of our vocabulary as did other strange terms like shelter in place and social distancing. The world is changing quickly, as
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