ROKU Homeschool: Taming The Gossip Monster!

Welcome to my new blog on all things homeschool and ROKU! ROKU is the amazing little device that transports you to a world of imagination! More concretely, ROKU is an inexpensive little device that plugs into your tv and allows you to watch over 1,500 channels of fun! What our family really likes about ROKU
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Graduating College Debt Free (or as close as possible)

Over $1 Trillion dollars! That is the amount students owe in federal student loans. That amount doesn’t even include loans from other sources. Think about that number for a minute. That’s 12 zeros…it’s huge! To break that down to an individual basis, the average 2014 college graduate has over $30,000 of federal loan debt before
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Teaching Entrepreneurial Skills The Natural Way!

Have you ever dreamt a fantastic dream of what you were going to be when you grew up? Like many children I imagined myself in all sorts of grownup roles . . . but never in a million years would I have imagined myself where I am today!   As of today, I am a
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Simplify Your Homeschool

By Karen DeBeus Simplify. It’s a buzz word these days. In a world full of noise, clutter, and distraction so many of us are yearning for simplicity. I have been on the quest for simplicity for several years now, weeding out the extras to ease the burden of abundance.  Yet, surprisingly what I have found
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The Empty School

Do you ever wonder what it will be like to be DONE homeschooling? The question might have crossed my mind a couple of times over the last 15 or 16 years, but I never dwelt on it — I didn’t have time! My life was crammed with the “side-effects” of homeschooling — musical instruments, field
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Homeschooling with Roku

Do you ROKU? I do and so does our family! In this article I am going to share with the uninitiated and all of you ROKU fans out there, how this momma began her journey streaming style!   So, what is ROKU? I had never heard of it, and when I did, it sounded complicated.
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7 Simple Ways to Keep Your Child Learning All Summer Long

by Patti Rommel, Director of Research and Development at Lakeshore Learning Materials   1. Make Summer a Real Page-Turner! Summer reading builds a richer vocabulary and keeps brains engaged. Make it a habit to visit your local library and help your child find “just right” books that are of high interest and written at an
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Audio Drama Discipline

These days it seems many Christian kids are seriously into their audio dramas.   Yesterday, I even heard of a mom who punished her son by not letting him listen to his favorite show…. about missionaries!   When she took away his CD, she said he wailed like he’d lost an arm! Recently, I had an interesting
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