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How to Prepare for Homeschooling High School
I’m preparing for 8th grade. How did that happen? But as I prepare for 8th grade it occurs to me that we need to begin the process of preparing for homeschooling high school. We need to begin researching so that we can lay te groundwork for a successful high schoolThat means, we need to look ahead to determine the probable outcome for our child. This post contains affiliate ad links to 3rd party sales pages which may result in paid compensation for this blogger. We plan to lead him toward college but aren’t opposed to a trade school or a school of ministry for our child. Either way, preparing as if he…
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How We’re Building Knowledge of the U.S. Elections with a Lapbook Study
This has been the oddest Presidential primary of my life. While I have a lot of opinions about this election season, that’s not why I am writing today. But, given that it is a Presidential election year, I realized that my son is now old enough to really start to comprehend what the U.S. Elections are all about, what our election process is, and why it’s important. He’s always been fascinated with the facts surrounding the U.S. Presidents, but he’s never shown much interest in how they became presidents. But lately, he’s been asking questions. Perhaps he’s just more curious now that we are just finishing up a 2 year…
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10 Things Foster Moms Won’t Tell You
Foster moms do not have it easy. I know what your thinking, being a mom isn’t easy. That’s true. But trust me when I say that being a foster mom is a lot harder than general motherhood. Foster moms are lovingly mothering children they never bore, who have most likely faced extensive trauma in their lives, before being uprooted from the only lives they’ve known and dropped into a complete strangers home. Often, completely alone. Often, not knowing why, how, or when it happened. I remember one of our foster sons, let’s call him Fred. We were called late in the evening to come and get Fred who was 2…
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5 Homeschool Things You Need
The internet is filled with posts like these. Homeschool bloggers abound these days. And, everyone has their own opinion of homeschool things that you will need in order to be successful. This post contains affiliate links to products which may be purchased at 3rd party sites, which may result in paid compensation to this blogger. You might find posts galore about the kinds of pencils to buy, what kind of printer is best, curriculum posts detailing the hows and whys of a certain brand, style or method. But the reality is that in order to homeschool your going to need some more basic things than those. 10 Homeschool Things You Really Need…
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10 High School Homeschool Bloggers You Should Follow
I can’t believe how quickly my Young Man is growing up. It won’t be much longer before he is in high school homeschool! This post contains affiliate links to products or services at 3rd party sites. Purchases made at these sites might result in paid compensation for this blog author. A couple of weeks ago I attended a homeschool mom’s retreat and during one of the sessions the speaker spoke of preparing ahead for your child’s high school years by contacting possible colleges when your child is in the 8th grade in order to determine what required classes and other requirements they may have for allowing your homeschool student to…
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Missouri Architectural Field Trips for Homeschoolers
Architectural field trips may not be your cup of tea, but if you have boys who are interested in building with LEGO bricks, K’Nex rods, Magnetix or even Minecraft they may perhaps have an engineering mind like my son does. Which is why I’m sharing this architectural field trips to explore in Missouri list. This post contains affiliate links to products at 3rd party sites. Purchases made from external sites may result in paid compensation for this blog owner. Field trips, those two words are either an exciting prospect to a homeschooling mom, or serve as another must do check off the list of to-dos for others. For kids field…
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How to Find LEGO Instruction Manuals
Do your kids love LEGO Bricks? Most do, or at least they dabble in brick building from time to time. Do you ever buy old sets of *LEGO® Bricks and realize the LEGO instruction manuals are missing? Or, maybe someone passed off a bin of bricks and there are several really cool parts that you aren’t sure what your kids can do with them. Did you know that you can find a variety of instruction manuals and brick designs online? Or have you considered joining a custom instruction club? I only recently learned about such clubs where members post or review instructions written by other members. If you want to…
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Goals Check-in for March
We’ve reached March and it’s Time for a Goals Check-in I’m a day behind with my goals check-in post because I am traveling on the east side of the country. I have had several things to attend to including speaking at a homeschool moms retreat, sending Young Man to a youth conference with his previous youth group, meeting with our tax advisor, and visiting with friends and family back in Ohio and West Virginia. I took this picture on a day when Young Man and I had been walking around the neighborhood and sat on the front steps to rest. He’s reached the age where he doesn’t want his picture taken…
