Category: The Home School Zone

I’m never a perfect mommy. In fact, I’m rarely an excellent mommy. I aim for “good enough” and like to believe I generally fall somewhere in the range of “great.” But, really, what is “great”? …

This month my kids are wrapping up their current grade levels that we began in September and getting ready to move on to the next grade. But it’s purely coincidence that we started are finishing …

You know what really sucks about this whole keeping-tiny-humans-alive thing? Feeding them. Seems like a silly thing to complain about, right? I’m mean…there’s the crying and fighting and not sleeping and diapers. I mean, there’s …

We are slowly starting to make progress with getting Honeybun, my reluctant writer, to have confidence in putting stories together. She no longer immediately starts in with the “I can’t do it!” or “I hate writing.” …

Writing has been a constant struggle for us since starting homeschooling, and instead of continuing to avoid it, this year I decided to make writing a priority. I’ve tried many things to encourage writing, and while some …

About the only thing that makes people as nosy as walking around hugely pregnant with your three other kids in tow is being out in the middle of a weekday with school-aged children. And while …

We recently started using WriteShop Primary for our homeschool writing curriculum with both my second and fourth graders. The program is designed as an introduction to writing and aims to help children build confidence in writing …

I consider myself a professional writer which makes it ironic that my biggest failure as a homeschooling parent has been in teaching my children how to write. Two and a half years ago, when deciding …

“Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?” It’s a question we get asked often from the time we’re small and it’s one I’ve never been good at answering. But I …

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