My daughter has avoided word games like the plague in the past. She really didn’t like doing plain word lists, or vocabulary lists. Last year I even asked a fellow home schooling mom to “teach” my daughter spelling because it was just a serious point of friction with us. This year, I tried a different [...]

So here we are; it’s back to school time again.  I wonder if this year I’ll find enough fascinating & fun things to keep my son interested in school.  Better yet, he needs to feel challenged by school, and that’s one of the things public school wasn’t giving him.  But can we really do any [...]

It’s that time of year again…Time to get creative and plan curriculum & activities to keep the kids learning through another year.  Often, literature and writing easily keep a child’s interest because reading and writing about imaginative stories and adventures can be fun.  But what if your kids aren’t so easily hooked? Scouring the net [...]

OMG!  I just might have found something to help my daughter write.  She is always discouraging me to NOT have her write.  Big tears rolling down her face saying ” I can’t”…”what do I write about?” Sadly to say she wins most the time.  Pick your own battles right?  Well, she asked to redecorate her room to [...]

Sometimes I think we all need a little bit of information about the states.  For adults, our information needs  might be more along the lines of needing to find out information about home schooling laws for the state we live in, or are planning to move to.  Other information parents need is information on getting [...]