Homeschool Questions Today our homeschool community question is from a reading friend who wants to know more about teaching children independent work habits. My older boys, ages 9 and 12, have very good independent work habits; however, it has been years of slow and steady habit training (and not that those don’t need further [...]
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I {Heart} My Dry Erase Board For several years we’ve had a dry erase board that hangs on our living homeschool room door (it hung on the door even before it was our schoolroom). This board is my secret weapon in family management. I realize I have a few scared readers with my [...]
Today on Big Family Friday we’re having a little fun with something that I like to call community question. The Lord has really blessed our Holy Spirit-led Homeschooling fellowship online; I’m thankful for His mighty hand bringing mommas encouragement through our time together. One of these neat blessings has been seen is in our Holy [...]
I realize that not all of my readers have Facebook. I shared this on my FB wall, but wanted to share it on here too. I received this quote from a reader friend today (@ the bottom of her email). I loved it so much that I had to share! photocredit
Creating Custom Responsibility Charts Last week I shared our Age Specific Chore List for Ages 1-12. To go along with the topic of child training I wanted to share how we have used responsibility charts for our young children. We call our charts “Responsibility Charts,” because we want to instill a mindset of having personal [...]
Free Chore List for Kids Click here for the Free Chore List for Kids! Chore training is mostly through play at young ages. When you read on the list the chores for ages 18-months to 2-years, know that many of those listed are for the middle-side of 2. There is no major expectation in those years, except [...]
We’ve talked before about chores for young children. Today, I would like to introduce you to a new game that has made sweeping the kitchen delightful for our younger children. The Sweeping Game: The Sweeping game is a simple way to make sweeping fun. Even my 2-1/2 year old has decided that he’s old enough [...]
Today we have a special guest on Holy Spirit-led Homeschooling. Author and speaker, Israel Wayne is sharing from his journey as second generation homeschool dad. You may hear Israel Wayne speaking at the upcoming Teach Them Diligently Convention. I couldn’t keep from thinking, “What could be better than to have our first child today, on Father’s Day!” Many thoughts [...]
No two children are alike. I have five distinctly creative and individual children. One of our five has flipped me off my feet with my parenting skills. You see, I thought I had skills. We’ve worked our system and seen desired results with our other children. The results that we sought; our children’s hearts. But [...]
