Whether it is a few pots on back porch or an acre of land carefully planned out in February, having a garden is an incredible asset to your family’s education. Even though I remember a time without cell phones or computers, my children never will. With all the extreme changes our culture continues to experience, … Read more
Using unschooling to teach to the interests of your child makes it a wonderful tool! Read how unschooling puts your child front and center in this special guest post.
Home educators are all about learning. We spend a disproportionate amount of our time thinking, planning, collecting materials, and preparing a cerebral meal for our best and most important students – our children. Phonics turns into creative writing, baking soda-driven volcanoes morph into equations on a page, and the years drift by as relentless … Read more
We moved here to the Coastal area of Washington State 10 years ago, at the time I truly had absolutely no idea what I was getting into. Being born and raised on the East side of the State where we truly had 4 seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, the weather here was quite a … Read more
Three years ago when I started homeschooling, one name kept coming up in conversation: Charlotte Mason. She was everywhere. Then I discovered she’d been dead for over 80 years, and I started to wonder what she had to do with twenty-first century homeschooling. So I started digging. I discovered her premise contained twenty basic principles, … Read more