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Contagious Homeschooling
It all began during a conversation over dinner one night. “And so,” concluded Clay, “That is how I started building model rockets when I was a kid.” “What are model rockets?” both brothers asked at the...
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What We’re Doing Differently This Year
Looking across my notes from the last homeschooling year, I found three easy-to-read categories. The Good: My kids aren’t on Facebook, so they didn’t realize that on the First Day of School I was...
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History for Early Learners
Learn How to Love History When I was a homeschool student, history was one of my favorite subjects, but my love for it went well beyond the end of our homeschool day. I was thinking about what my...
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Sequential History
While I love homeschooling for the many benefits it offers my children, I am constantly amazed by how much homeschooling has profited my own education as well. For example, I’ll never forget studying...
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5 Myths to Overcome When Teaching Worldview
Worldview Myths One of the hottest, if not the hottest, topics in homeschooling right now is worldview. Twenty years ago, you never heard the term worldview, let alone saw books, curricula, seminars,...
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Feeling Like a Newbie
I sit in my home library surrounded by stacks of books. The stacks over there need to find a storage home until the next child needs them. The stacks closer to me will hopefully stay intact until I...
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Colonial Silhouettes
Portraiture for the Common Man A picture is worth a thousand words, so the saying goes. And the pictures that were available before the invention of the camera were paintings or drawings. So much can...
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Get to Work and Play!
I watched my children through the kitchen window as I did the breakfast dishes. I could see their brightly colored clothing moving behind the trees in our woods. The three of them, ages eight, five,...
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Are You Running Out of Time?
I was going about life minding my own business when traffic got in my way. I squirmed in my seat, hoping deputies getting ready to direct traffic were not harbingers of scheduling doom. I was running...
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A Conversation with Diana Waring
Three tattered, well-loved books rest on my shelves, and I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of them. I’ve lent them out to friends and read them repeatedly myself for motivation and inspiration. The...
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