Thoughts on living, learning, and loving
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‘Story of the World’ History Curriculum Plus MORE!
Why I Still Love ‘Story of the World’, but just needed something …. more. If you’ve been in the homeschool world for any length of time, chances are you’ve heard of—or already own—a copy of ‘The Story of the World’ by Susan Wise Bauer. This series has been a staple on homeschool bookshelves for decades. It has a great conversational tone, reads like a story, and the chronological order makes it enjoyable for the kids, while still offering a good strong foundation in world history. As someone who LOVES learning about history, when I first started using ‘The Story of the World’ with my three children, I had really…
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How To Choose a Homeschool Curriculum
What homeschool curriculum do you use? Whether in a park, at a co-op meeting, or wherever we find another one of us out and about, one of the first questions homeschoolers ask each other is, “What curriculum do you use?”. If you are new to homeschooling, you might still be in the stage of asking YOURSELF this question! THE CURRICULUM QUESTION!! Whether this phrase gets you feeling super excited or causes you to panic and head for the hills, this post is for YOU! If you’re just starting out with Littles, stressing about teaching High Schoolers, discovering that the expensive curriculum you bought in August is a bust, or…
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Homeschooling Podcasts About Everything!
If you like to listen to podcasts, this post is for YOU! And…if you are homeschooling, thinking about homeschooling, or know somebody that is homeschooling, you are going to LOVE this post! Honestly, until the last few years, I didn’t listen to many podcasts. I wasn’t sure where to start finding the type of podcasts I was interested in, and it took me awhile before I finally took the time to dig in to what was out there. But once I did… WOW! I now have more podcasts saved than I have time to listen to! As I dug, I also started finding some really great podcasts for kids that…
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5 Helps for Parenting a Prodigal
Parenting a Prodigal You feed them and rock them to sleep; you teach them how to talk, and walk, and run, and jump, and how to tie their shoes. You teach them how to ride a bike. You teach them to drive a car. You teach them to be strong and confident in who they are. You teach them how to reason and think for themselves. So, what happens when they do that…BUT “thinking for themselves” looks a whole lot more like defiance and rebellion? Truthfully, there’s a lot you can’t do. You can’t control another human being…this includes your child. You can’t monitor them 24/7 or make good choices…
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Artistic Ways to Say ‘I Love You’
Creative ways to say “I love you!”… “I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people” ~Vincent Van Gogh I love you! Easy peasy to say, right? Well it was easy for me to type that to the web world … and even to mean it! We say these words about a lot of things. I love my kids. I love pizza. I love my dog. I love reading. It’s kind of sad that in English we only have one word for “love”… it leaves a lot of ambiguity! And so, over time, these precious words can get quite watered down. They can lose a…
