In 2022, I was invited to give the commencement speech for a homeschool graduation ceremony. As we enter the last few weeks of school and...

At times during the school year we grow so accustomed to the expected regularity of our daily schedule that our momentum turns into...

In the mid-90’s I was teaching at a public school in which I was expected to distribute to the staff a monthly publication titled,...

My students were chatting casually one day when someone made a remark that surprised me, to which I responded with the current...

Until I began homeschooling, I assumed the library was merely a place to check out reading materials and subsequently pay fines for...

I witnessed something beautiful a few weeks ago in the vendor hall at a convention. While speaking with a homeschool dad at my booth, I...

“Why aren’t your kids in school?” The lady at the checkout raised her eyebrows accusingly, peering over the rims of her glasses to size...

Something shifted in me when my firstborn began eighth grade. Suddenly I found myself at the edge of a cliff, staring wide-eyed like a...

“Because I said so” is not a phrase that motivates and inspires kids to get their schoolwork done. Neither is “Because it’s good for you”...

I grew up watching TV shows with beautifully poised, coiffed mother-figures like June Cleaver, Carol Brady, Claire Huxtable, and heck,...

“Comparison is the thief of joy” - Theodore Roosevelt. It was the first day of school and I couldn’t wait to eat lunch from my brand new...

Did you get an allowance when you were growing up? As a young teen, I was awestruck at the notion of my peers getting five to ten dollars...

I love the Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling. The turn-of-the-19th-century educational guru was really on to something. I say yes...

The CoronaVirus has proven globally that things don’t always go as planned. The ramifications of this pandemic on our education system...

You may recall the second law of thermodynamics: “Every system left to its own devices moves from order to disorder.” When my third child...

Below is the Prologue from “Our Secret Journal Revealed,” the book my daughter and I published a couple years ago when she was in...

My mom’s got a saying that she learned from her father: “first, first, and then first.” The refrain has become multi-generational, as our...

Here is a SIMPLE way to keep records of what your homeschool students accomplished each year!

Perspective! Have you ever noticed how the elderly often look back on their difficult seasons in life with a hint of sentimental...

Some of us parents are free-flowing and some of us are highly structured. In the homeschool realm, there are challenges if the scale is...