The Weekly Checklist
Quit nagging your kids by using the homeschool checklist! This checklist will help your kids learn how to manage their independent learning activities and feel the satisfaction and rewards with a job well done...every week. We include a checklist template and some resources for helping you plan the ultimate homeschool life with your kids.
Benefits of Board Games
Board games have many developmental benefits, some of which you may not have thought of. Learn more and get recommendations for our favorite games to play as a family.
Growing Friendships: How Not To Talk About Your Children All the Time
Grab a cup of Jo and let’s talk…about everything BESIDES our children. Let’s expand our horizons.
How Our Donut Road Trip Made Me Awesome
Donuts? Donut road trip? With a homeschool bestie? You had me at DONUT! Donut say anything more – my two favorite worlds merging – food and homeschool – donut you know me at all? There is no question about it! We’re going! And we went! And it was everything I dreamed it would be.
Road Trip Tip: The Gift of the Goody Bag
There’s one magic thing you can do daily that can make all the difference in traveling with a friend, spouse, or child. It’s the daily goody bag.
10 Tips for Road Trips: Planning
Road trips can be the ultimate immersive learning experience - but it takes proper planning to make it the epic trip of your dreams. This planning how-to will really start your engine!
Homeschooling Birthday Parties: Making the Plan
Planning birthday parties is a fun, child-led opportunity for teaching your children event planning. Here’s a simple checklist and some easy tips to walk your child through this fun process.
Bunny Cakes: Carrot Cake Cookies
East to make carrot cake cookies made from real food ingredients, perfect for welcoming spring or celebrating Easter.
Pinch Me: 5 Ideas for Homeschooling St. Patrick’s Day
With traps, gold coins, and creative fun, St. Patrick’s Day can become quite a memorable homeschool day. Here’s 5 ways to homeschool St. Patrick’s Day.
The Home Stretch: 5 Ways to Finish Your School Year Well
Instead of coasting through the end of our homeschool year, let’s run through the finish line with purpose. It’s the home stretch so let’s make it matter. We discuss ways to finish your school year right with 5 simple steps.
A Recipe for Fun: Cooking with Kids
Teaching a life skill can be a precious moment between a parent and child. Let’s talk about how to cook with your child in an enriching and bonding way. The ingredients to a fun and enriching cooking experience are simple!
20 Self-Care Tips for the Homeschool Mom
When I think of strong women, I think of us, the homeschool moms. Our challenges are great, but our hope is even greater. We started the journey strong, but how do we stay strong? How do we wear all our hats from dawn to dusk with love in our hearts? How do we have the energy to deal with math meltdowns and snack spills every day? How do we smile and encourage our son that takes ten minutes to write one. simple. sentence? Burnout creates bitterness and a homeschool built on bitterness crumbles. We have to take care of ourselves if we want to finish strong.
The Bag O’ Fun: Enriching Your Car Rides, Homeschool Style
Fill your road trip and long car rides with fun - with the Bag O’ Fun! This simple party in a bag is a sure way to create enriching learning and bonding experiences in the car! Free downloadable of car games ideas are included.
There’re No Lemons, Just Lemonade: How Sweet it is to Create and Learn with a Friend
So, have you ever made lemonade? It requires like a year’s worth of sugar to make a decent pitcher of fresh squeezed lemonade. So after I made it one time with my kids, I was like, “No way. We are never doing that again.” But let’s talk about what’s sweeter than lemonade...our Mom-friends!
Create New Experiences in Familiar Spaces
So, it finally occurred to me - why not let them choose where we have our formal school time. Let’s leave the familiar and find new settings and new places - even within your home and backyard!
Favorite Books: Bigger Than Just a Book
You don’t always know it when you see it. It’s beauty and changing and love. You won’t know it until you read it. It’s a moment that I love. It’s when a book becomes bigger than just a book, it’s: the biggers.
When Happy Hour Fills Your Cup
Happy Hour is just that - HAPPY! Does it need to be anything else? Grab your Kombucha, and grab your kid and their favorite drink - and have your own Happy Hour. Right now we cannot go out on “dates” with our kids, but we can still have dates…in our home!
Forget Social Distancing - Try Some Virtual Togetherness!
Through our struggles with homeschooling during a pandemic, we are having to cope and create our own version of normal to best serve our children that looks so different than our normal homeschooling life. As part of our coping, we decided to plan an amazing schedule of Zoom meet-ups for our sweet homeschool friend group.
Minimal PrepTip 5 - Capturing the Now with a Time Capsule
If I had a time capsule when I was a kid, it would have contained roller skates, Chuck-e-Cheese tokens, my Swatch Watch, my New Kids on the Block t-shirt, a mixed tape of Whitney Houston’s greatest hits, and a scrunchie...and I’m super bummed I don’t have one to open. But my kids can, and so can yours!