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Managing Your Home When You’re Tired

I was intending to give you a full-length article today, but I’m sick and have had an exhausting week. So I think I’ll “practice what I preach” and give you the short version instead of the long version. It will probably be easier for you to absorb anyway!

Notebooking

Can you give me ideas about what you guys do to notebook?  I would like to incorporate it in our homeschooling this year. Just have a few questions about the notebooking… do you have one notebook for all subjects or do you have a separate for Bible, history, science, etc.? 

How much time should Mom spend homeschooling?

Anne, I was reading about your new school year. How do you fit in “together time”, individual time, and your other subjects that I read about? Do you do all those subjects every day?  I am having trouble [figuring out how to get it all done].

Share your best homeschool planning tips

Hey, if you have any tips you could share with other readers on How to Plan for a New Homeschooling Year, please… share below in the comments!

The best tips are going to be featured in our upcoming book on how to plan and organize for a new school year… and if your tip is chosen, that means you’ll also get a free copy of the book!…

Curriculum and Planning with No Money

Anne, do you know of any tips or curriculum ideas for those in these tough times? My husband has been out of work since February, and I’m wondering what curriculum to buy (especially for my 10th grader who needs to do Biology and Spanish) and still give my children a good education.

Practical Planning for a New School Year

I know summer is only half over, but my brain is certainly gearing up for the new school year. I really love to plan and make lists, so I think this is fun. However, summer days go by quickly, and planning a school year is a big job — so it takes me several weeks to get it all done.…

Handling Things in a Large Family

I’ve been asked, “How do you handle everything with so many kids,” so many times recently that I thought it would be fun to write a blog post about it. Then I saw this question repeated in a yahoo group today, and so, yup, it’s time to write that blog post!…

Let's Try Notebooking

By Cindy Rushton

Notebooking … ahhh, just the thought makes me hyper! If I could ask every homeschooling family to do just one thing, it would be to just give notebooking a try. This is the one technique that pulls everything together—studies, research, real life, personal interests—everything!…

How to Calm Clutter

Clutter is certainly a beast that must be tamed for us moms to ever have enough energy to homeschool. You already know that, so I won’t spend a lot of time repeating why we need to get rid of clutter. Let’s get right to the how!…

Over 200 Summertime Activities

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Since we don’t use the phrase “I’m bored!” in our home, we don’t hear our kids complaining about being bored during those long days at home during the summer months.…