I’ve been invited to try Time4Learning for one month in exchange for a candid review. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. Time4Learning can be used as a homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment and for summer skill sharpening. Find out how to write your [...]
My twelve year old son has a lot of questions. You would too if you had been left alone for most of the first three years of your life, shuffled around in foster care for the next three years, and finally landed in a family who loved you but who isn’t perfect either. Gabriel’s questions [...]
Home education can be a frustrating and scary ride. I dove into the homeschooling world because my six year old son’s heart was breaking in a traditional school setting. My first year I used a fairly structured curriculum and he wasn’t much better off than he had been in school. Sigh. So, I started looking [...]
So I’m reading this book called “Discover Your Child’s Learning Style” by Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson. I’ve been wading through all the work we should have been doing in the last few months while we’ve been dealing with depression, sickness and injury. Rest is so foreign to me that though I have tried [...]
Maybe you know and maybe you don’t know that we are a family who tends to rescue what(or who) needs rescuing. These past few years in addition to children we’ve been rescuing horses. I’ve always been a horse lover and have been doing more in the last couple years with horses than ever before but [...]
As the winter falls upon us those of you home schoolers who let your kids wile away the afternoons playing outside during the spring, summer and fall may be looking at the bleak months ahead with dismay. Worry not my fellow moms! (Ahem, and dads too!) Below you will find some perfectly wonderful ways to [...]
It’s true, my daughter has a relatively unknown past. It is also true that she has learning disabilities. In spite of this, I still go through these moments of beating myself up about the fact that her progress is excruciatingly slow. In addition to this, I know she is incredibly smart. She catches onto things [...]
When she walked into the room with her case worker she looked angry. I wondered how a two year old child could look so– well, jaded. Her curly hair hung in ringlets framing her face and two large blue eyes darted from one corner of the room to the other. Suddenly, she took off running [...]
Thirteen years ago today I was holding a little bundle that weighed less than our cat. It is hard to believe that bundle is already 13– but I must admit, he is fun to be around and is growing into quite a responsible young man. Making the decision to home school him has paid off [...]
Giving kids instructions and having them actual followed can be a huge challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you have leftover attachment issues and defiance-against-mom issues coming from a 10 year old boy. We have always searched for ways to give instructions without actually talking. Lists, cards with pictures of chores–we’ve tried many things [...]