I have been pushing my daughter rather hard in language Arts and in social studies this week.  The reason we are pushing hard in language arts is not because she is behind, or because she is not doing well.  I just want her to finish sixth grade langauge arts in the  next couple of months [...]

 I’ve been asked whether it is easy or difficult to home school. My usual answer is something like, “well, that depends on what you consider hard!” In reality, the answer is dependent on where you live, how committed you are to home schooling, and probably how organized you are.    I’m fortunate. Ok, there are [...]

Wow, it is time for summer to come to an and to get back to school. That is, unless you never stopped school. For some of us, we home school all year long, and the summer time is not even a time to slow down. Part of that is because it is so incredibly hot [...]

I know, I shouldn’t be frustrated because my child doesn’t know something. That is the entire point of her going to school, is it not? If she knew everything, then there would be no point to her doing lessons. I’m going to take a deep breath and try to keep this in mind. What is [...]

My local school will begin the 2011-12 school year next week. While this doesn’t really effect my home school, it does increase my level of stress a little bit. We took an unforeseen break in June and July as far as school was concerned. Family issues required much of my time, and school was the [...]