When we first started homeschooling things here looked a lot like school at home. There was a fair bit of sitting down and book work. What we learned about was dictated by me and a bit by the provincial curriculum. Over the last few years we’ve changed from school at home to a more interest-led…
This post may contain affiliate links, you can read my affiliate disclosure here. Here’s what we’ve been reading this week: THE MOM – I finished The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman, I think I ended up giving it 3 stars, I would maybe stretch that to a 3.5. She had some good…
One of the things I love about homeschooling is following the interests of my kids. I am really looking forward to the day when they “know what they want to be when they grow up” (or you know, at least an idea. I’m not even sure if I know what I want to be when…
Over the last few years of having this blog I have heard from a number of homeschool moms who have been in search of a homeschooling community. Often there are not many homeschoolers around them or there are other homeschoolers but they choose to educate their kids in a different way. I knew I wanted…
Do you ever wish you could be a fly on the wall of someone else’s homeschool? Maybe I’m just nosy but I would love to be able to sit in and watch other people homeschool. Even though I get together with other homeschoolers and we chat resources and tips and all that there is so…
Last week I had the opportunity to get together with a number of other homeschooling moms. What I didn’t realize going into it was how much wisdom I would come away with. For the most part my in-person homeschooling community consists of families that are in the same general stage we are currently in. Some…