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Relaxed Homeschooling: Kathryn’s view
Kathryn has been homeschooled since kindergarten, but she has friends and step-siblings who have attended (or still attend) public school — and she’s still 100% on board with homeschool. The biggest pluses for her: A) she gets a big say in what she studies, and B) she can keep on snoozing while the bus carrying…
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How to Parent your Introvert Child
Recently I shared some insight on how to be friends with an introvert, because I know being friends with us sometimes-quirky introverted folks can be challenging if you don’t “get” us. 😉 If merely being friends with an introvert can be tricky for an extrovert, then parenting an introvert kid can be downright perplexing! All…
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Springtime Homeschooling {+ Volvo love}
Those of you who don’t live around here may not know there are actually five seasons in Georgia: summer (by far the longest of the seasons), fall (delightful), winter (often with nary a snowflake to be seen), spring (beautiful but usually too short), and pollen (wedged right in the middle of spring). During this season,…
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DIY: How to Build a Rain Barrel
Someday, when my garden grows up, it’s going to be a cottage garden. I’ve been working on making it into one for years now, and that’s taken a whole lot of trial and error in regards to what works and what doesn’t. It’s an ongoing process. Our house isn’t at all cottage style, but surrounding…
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Worth Reading: my latest book recommendations
I go in spurts with reading. When I have a bunch of other things going on, I neglect my stack o’ books, but then read one right after another. Sometimes I have more than one book going at a time: maybe a nice little fiction novel, something Bible studyish, perhaps something related to homeschooling, and…
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Relaxed Homeschooling: Core Phase for Young Learners
I believe young kids benefit from very relaxed, unschoolish, interest-led learning, and a delayed start to structured academics. In the Leadership (or Thomas Jefferson) Education model I’ve been discussing, this is the Core Phase of learning. Our primary goals during these Core Phase years are: to encourage learning in an unstructured way to teach what…