How to Reduce the Stress of Math Homework

How to Reduce the Stress of Math Homework

Math is often a tricky subject for many children. If your kids are feeling overly stressed about the subject, try using some of the tips below to help them feel better about their progress. Reassure Them Everything Will Be Okay The first thing to do when your child is...
Home School During the Holidays

Home School During the Holidays

Okay, parents, it’s time for the Holidays, and you’ve been doing a great job with homeschooling. You genuinely have; pat yourself on the back. With the holidays approaching, the children will want a break from the home school lessons, which is understandable. Even you...
How to Teach Kids Healthy Eating Habits

How to Teach Kids Healthy Eating Habits

Children need adequate nutrition to fuel their growing and active bodies. It can be difficult to get kids to eat what you want them to, developing healthy eating habits now will set the foundation for the rest of their lives. Here are a few ways to teach kids healthy...
Are you Working Hard at Teaching or Enjoying Educating?

Are you Working Hard at Teaching or Enjoying Educating?

Whether you have been homeschooling for years or were forced into it by 2020, you’ve taken on a difficult task.  Teaching isn’t easy and you are likely tackling it on top of your “real” job, taking care of a home and trying to be a parent, neighbor, spouse, friend,...
When the February Slump Arrives Early

When the February Slump Arrives Early

In most schooling situations, whether brick and mortar classroom of some kind or your own kitchen table, February seems to be known as the slump month. It’s dark. It’s cold. It’s usually wet and sloppy outside. You’ve been schooling for six solid months. It feels like...
Homeschooling – Choose your battles

Homeschooling – Choose your battles

The other day, my teenage son asked, “How do you do it, Mom? How do you stay inside all day?” It was more of a rhetorical question, considering the answer was a given. Clearly, he was feeling the effects of the pandemic—schools, malls, theaters, and restaurants shut...