Tips for the Homeschool Mom

When you’re a homeschool mom, you wear a lot of hats: parent, homemaker, chauffeur, teacher, administrator, school nurse.

To be a homeschool mom requires organization and patience, but it’s also one of the most rewarding of roles. Here are tips and tricks that have been successful for the last 20 years of my career as a homeschool mom.

How I Taught My Kids to Read

How I Taught My Kids to Read

Continuing the series, FishMama’s Picks for Homeschooling, today I’m sharing how I taught my kids to read.   One of the things I was reminded of this past year in our Extreme Homeschool Makeover was that the basics are good. There’s nothing wrong with focusing on the basics. In fact, they are the building blocks…

Why We Do School at Home

Why We Do School at Home

There are lots of reasons to homeschool. Today I share why we do school at home.   Hubby and I just got home from the California Great Homeschool Convention. I only mis-navigated the adventure a few times during our travels, and we only took a couple wrong turns. But, it was an overall success because FishPapa…

Managing Library Resources

Managing Library Resources

At any given time in our house we can have at least 100 library resources in our possession. Since our kids are voracious readers, the older ones can easily go through 7 books a week as well as flip through numerous other books for their schoolwork. One hundred books can be quite the load to…