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Allergens 101: What You Need To Know

Allergens 101: What You Need To Know

If you frequently bring treats for your children’s activities and schooling, chances are you’re realizing chocolate chip cookies aren’t going to cut it. Children are facing more and more food allergens, with a whopping estimate of 5.6 million children under 18.  With...

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How a Housekeeper Can Improve Your Homeschooling Experience

How a Housekeeper Can Improve Your Homeschooling Experience

Being a homeschool parent takes a lot of time and work. Many homeschool parents find that there is little free time to complete the necessary tasks during the day like cleaning the bathroom and doing the laundry. Just because you’re at home doesn’t mean you have time...

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How to Raise a Social Child While Homeschooling

How to Raise a Social Child While Homeschooling

One of the biggest fears a new homeschool parent has is that their child won’t learn proper socialization skills if they aren’t enrolled in public school. This is far from the truth, as any seasoned homeschool parent. Raising a child with healthy social skills not...

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Homeschooling Children on the Spectrum

Homeschooling Children on the Spectrum

If your child is on the autism spectrum, it can be very difficult finding the right school for their education and learning. Teachers can offer only so much support when their classroom is full, and some specialized schools may not be available in your area. You may...

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How To Homeschool on A Budget

How To Homeschool on A Budget

Deciding to homeschool your children is a big step in the education world. There are many steps involved in determining the time and resources involved in taking on your children’s learning. Once you start diving into the curriculum and figuring out extracurricular...

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5 Ways to Celebrate Fall’s Arrival!

5 Ways to Celebrate Fall’s Arrival!

As the air gets cooler and the days shorter, your heart may realize fall is here before your mind. And whether you are a fan of crisp leaves and apple cider or not, everybody can get into the Fall festive mood. Your children may already be antsy for a break from...

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African Americans and Homeschooling 2021

African Americans and Homeschooling 2021

BACKGROUND The homeschool movement has expanded it’s reach dramatically during the 2020/2021 pandemic and its related lockdowns and forced school closures.  Many families have decided to not to send their K to 12 students back to school despite broadscale re-openings...

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Fueling Your Brain for Optimal Achievement

Fueling Your Brain for Optimal Achievement

You are what you eat.  Have you heard this saying before? You may be rolling your eyes and thinking, yes, only a million times. Well good, because it’s the truth! If you’re feeling sluggish midway through the school day, this read is worth your time. If not, good for...

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Typing Programs for Kids

Typing Programs for Kids

Everyone uses computers these days. Even if you’re stressing the importance of handwriting to your kids, you’re probably using an online program to assist you in your homeschooling efforts. Here are some great online typing courses to help your kids become keyboard...

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Teaching Kids About Money

Teaching Kids About Money

Before your eyes, your child is growing up quickly. It may have felt like just yesterday when they began Kindergarten, and today they’re almost in middle school. You may have laid out the groundwork for basic money skills when they were younger, but it can’t hurt to...

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How To Help Your Child Balance School & Fun

How To Help Your Child Balance School & Fun

Raising your children this past year and a half has had it’s share of ups and downs, to put it mildly. Both of your worlds were flipped when schooling became home-bound, and you became the teacher. This process alone can be a huge transition for anybody, let alone...

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4 Ways to Homeschool in the Car

4 Ways to Homeschool in the Car

Even though homeschooling offers more flexibility than public school, you can still find yourself so busy that there isn’t enough time to do everything in the day. If you’re running to doctor’s appointments, band practice, sports, and church, why not use that time in...

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How to Teach Your Child to Wash Their Hands

How to Teach Your Child to Wash Their Hands

Fall is quickly approaching, and with it comes cold and flu season. Even if you homeschool your children, they can be exposed to germs at the playground, library, and local rec center. Anyone who comes into your home can also bring germs with them. Learning the...

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How to Use Homeschooling to Teach Child Independence

How to Use Homeschooling to Teach Child Independence

Learning independence is an important part of growing up. Homeschooling your children gives you plenty of opportunities to allow them to become more independent. As a parent, there are many ways you can help your child make their own decisions and learn independence...

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Tips for Healthy Electronic Use With Children

Tips for Healthy Electronic Use With Children

Many children today grow up watching television, playing computer games, and using portable devices. You probably rely on many of these devices as a homeschool parent to educate your child. Even so, it’s natural to feel concerned about the amount of time your kids...

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Why Children Need to Learn Math

Why Children Need to Learn Math

It seems like every child at some point will groan about a math assignment and ask “why do I need to learn this?” with their head in their hands. While math can be difficult for some children to understand, this skill is crucial for success in life. Here’s why it is...

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Ideas for the Struggling Learner

Ideas for the Struggling Learner

The past 18 months have been a whirlwind!  Our entire world was flipped upside down due to the coronavirus, and a feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty continues to linger.  Doctors, nurses, healthcare and frontline workers faced unprecedented challenges during the...

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Tips to Applying for College During Covid

Tips to Applying for College During Covid

If your high schooler is nearing college preparation, the journey may seem confusing and uncertain during the pandemic. As the world is opening up more and locations are slowly opening, you may have questions about how your kid can make the process easier and...

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Is Constant Access to Info Bad for Kids?

Is Constant Access to Info Bad for Kids?

During your children’s education, you may be reminiscing about the “good old days” of your schooling. The days spent doing homework, working in the library and doing extensive research on projects and papers due any day now. Seeing how far technology has advanced in...

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Build Closer Relationships Through Homeschooling

Build Closer Relationships Through Homeschooling

It may have felt like yesterday when your child was three, five, or even ten years-old. Now you blink and they’re a teenager, or could even be nearing high school graduation. There isn’t enough time no matter what you may think, but you may want to spend as much time...

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Children’s Books About Fall

Children’s Books About Fall

Even though summer is still in full swing, many parents are already planning for the changes that will happen in the fall. School starts up again for many people and the weather begins to cool down. These books are perfect for reading together under a cozy blanket as...

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