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How To: Start Homeschooling (Part 4)

In the first three entries in this series, we talked about Exploring your options, Investigating the possibilities, and Planning your experience.  Today we talk about Purchasing supplies. If you’ve chosen to go with a pre-planned program, then all you have to do...

Weekend Reading

And now for some sites written by moms.  🙂  (I listed some dad sites recently.)  Little Mummy is written by Erica, and it’s about life as a new parent.  Erica also shares great activity and resource ideas, and her post about making children’s dreams come...

Timer Training

How to teach your children to take turns. I don’t know if it was desperation or inspiration, but I timer trained my boys when they were very young. Okay I’ve thought about it.  It was desperation. By the time the older boys were 18 months old, I was able...

Chatterbox

I told this story to some friends, and one of them said it HAS to be here on the blog. So here it is, from 2 nights ago: Sheesh. I was in the middle of trying to figure out a rather complex problem on the computer, and Hubby was sleeping on the couch. The Mercenary...

Fine Toothed Comb

Yesterday The Mercenary was hoping to earn some extra money, so I mentioned that I’d pay fifty cents if he’d clean out the van.  It wasn’t much later that he informed me that the job was complete.  I asked the standard question:  “Will I think...