Hip Homeschool Hop & Featured Blogger 6/18/13 – Homeschooling a Child with Down Syndrome

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Thank you for joining us today!   Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! And now, a few words from our Featured Blogger….. I remember the first time I started to think that I could teach my daughter at home. We [...]

Ten Ways Homeschooling Has Changed Me

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I have a confession to make. I had no intention of homeschooling. After public high school with our oldest two, I was convinced that we would never go the government-provided-schooling route again, so we enrolled our younger two in a top-notch private Christian school. Somewhere in the first year, God laid homeschooling heavily on my [...]

3 Easy Ways to Strengthen Your Homeschool Marriage

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(stock image photo credit) In the daily shuffle of a homeschool mom’s life – math, reading, discipline, chores, errands, and more – it’s easy to take our marriages for granted. Our husbands work hard so we can have this cherished time dedicated to our children; they deserve our attention too! Here are a few easy ways to let [...]

Our Failures Are Our Successes

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  In September we started our first year of homeschool. We were all so excited. With colorful books and a little schoolroom all set up, we started out. It went well… and then my son started to push– his will against mine.I began to instruct him and then leave him alone for a while. He [...]

Hip Homeschool Hop & Featured Blogger 6/4/13 – Science Fairs, Even for Homeschoolers!

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Welcome to this week’s Featured Blogger & Hip Homeschool Hop!   Looking for homeschool supplies/books at a great price? Have something you’re not using and would like to sell? Visit our Hip List! Now, say “hello” to our Featured Blogger, Andrea….. “What?  A homeschool science fair?”  That’s the question I’ve received from several non-homeschooling friends [...]

When Things Don’t Go as Planned

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Let’s face it, there will be days and even weeks when our best-laid plans for our homeschool will be thrown out the window. This happens to homeschool families located anywhere in the world. Children get sick, or you the teacher, falls ill.   This past school year we had so many sick days that we [...]

Homeschooling and Change Go Hand in Hand

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I posted recently on my own personal blog about homeschooling families needing to be willing to change. After homeschooling for 16 years, I still find myself planning to do things differently next school year than I’ve done in previous years. Even after all these years (and all these years of change), I still find myself [...]

“Wowed” in Cincinnati

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I had my first real homeschool convention experience in early April when I attended the Great Homeschool Convention (GHC) in Cincinnati. I’d considered going to a convention before – to GHC, Teach Them Diligently, or any one of several mid-sized regional events – and I did help at a vendor booth for a very small [...]

Creativity – An Unexpected Result of Homeschooling

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Our 6 year old daughter is wildly creative and has a huge imagination. She is always making little creations from craft supplies, designing her own little books, staging videos on her camera and more.  In her mind, there will never be enough costumes in our house to satisfy all the things she wants to act [...]