Press On! Simple Homeschooling Advice and Encouragement
Learning As We Go In our family, we have two older boys, and then an eight-year gap between our younger son and our daughter. While spending time with my daughter’s friends and their moms, as the “veteran” homeschool mom, I sometimes get questions about...
How to Prepare Your Child to Take a Foreign Language
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. ‒ Dave Barry For many years now, homeschooling families have...
A Biology Lesson from my Four-Year-Old Son
I had a powerful exchange with my son when he was four years old, and his words made such an impact on me that I wrote them down after the conversation happened. Son: (looking quite pensive) Mom, when was I born? Me: May third. Son: (with much astonishment and...