It's unusual for a homeschooling mother to say that she makes regular space for a discipline such as silence and solitude.  For all ...

My husband had a brainstorm recently that he confessed to me last night as he took me out for my birthday dinner and shopping.  He said he...

My husband is off to Q Portland 2011 today. Our whole team of TNL pastors are attending the conference and I look forward to the energy a...

"What do I ever do that's just for me?"  This is a question that most moms wrestle with from time to time. And once we've...

B and I are doing a little overview of history right now.  It's a loose and interesting unit with a few goals: To give him a sense of ...

What?! You mean there are people who actually do that? Yes. There are. In fact, globally, homeschoolers are not a homogeneous group. Ther...

I'm a huge proponent for reading aloud to your kids from day one until they move out . There are so many wonderful benefits for for th...

...can take over your life. Tho it's not my first reason for homeschooling, I do this thing because I want to be in control of my kids...

My post is up at Heart of the Matter today: How NOT To Talk to a Teacher. It seemed important after I began to evaluate all the conversat...

Darcy at Heart of the Matter posted on the site today and I responded to it. Her question was: I’d love to hear the decision making proce...

The thought of driving across America in an RV is probably the most romanticized homeschooling dream ever invented. While we have never ev...

I had the chance to go hear Shane Claiborne tonight. I happened to have my homeschool filter on at the time and so what I heard I heard mos...

Sometimes we have days (o.k. weeks) when we think: “Is this all there is?” “I’m a homeschooling mom. But I have two degrees and years of mi...

It's a bit of a double entendre really. Can I coin the phrase "triple entendre" because there's really three things that ...

I was talking with my sister-in-law today and she asked, "How do you switch between being Mommy and being teacher to your boys? How do ...

Have you ever heard the phrase, "You only have to be a day ahead of them" ? I'm really milking that one lately. We started our...

In mid to late August we all go through this denial process, "Summer can't be over yet." "I didn't accomplish all the...

I'm not saying anything more here other than the fact that I just really appreciate this. On Responsibility for Education McCain : If a ...

You know who you are…you year-round homeschoolers. How do you look at these sunny days and squirt guns and even remotely link them to geo...

{See my prior posts in this brief series for my atypical rationale as to why I'm using this book, which is totally unrelated to homesch...