Set Goals to Succeed While Playing a Family Game: TRIVE

This article is in collaboration with TRIVE, a family game. As homeschooling parents, we long to discover what beats in our children’s hearts, strengthening our relationships at home. Yet, sometimes we do not know where to begin and how to get our children to open up and share. TRIVE is a discovery and goal-setting family … Read more

Start a New Christmas Advent Tradition with The Giving Manger

One of the joys of Christmas is building family traditions. We take traditions from the families we were born into and then come together and create new traditions for our own growing families. Do you trim your trees with lights or with popcorn? Do you take time to go Christmas light hunting? Does your family … Read more

Learning Life Lessons Through Homesteading

Learning Life Lessons Through Homesteading

For many homeschooling families, the most important part of the day is the life lessons learned. While we want our children to learn about multiplication and division, read classic works of literature, and understand the history of the world, we also want them to be individuals who will be productive and be able to take care of themselves and their own families someday. Combining the homesteading lifestyle with homeschooling is one way that parents can teach valuable life lessons.

Let Grandparents Help You Cultivate Your Homeschool

Webster’s Dictionary says that a grandparent is a parent of a parent. The thesaurus states that a grandparent is an ancestor. But in today’s world, a grandparent doesn’t have to be biologically related to have the title of Grandma and Grandpa. Whether biological or non-biological, grandparents have a special place in children’s lives, in their … Read more

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