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Community Question: Help me motivate my boys!
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Three Things Our Kids Should Know Before Graduation
By Heather Sanders With one child wrapping up her Senior year in June and another in her freshman year of high school, I’ve given considerable thought to what is most important for them to learn...
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The Internet: A Mixed Blessing
By Heather Sanders I am taking a course, “How to Write About Your Life”, because I write for a living and want to be better at it. I am taking an Algebra 1 course because I have a ninth-grade daughter...
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Good Writing is Directly Impacted by Bad Television
By Heather Sanders I rarely write a title before I complete a post, but I did today. My titles are written, rewritten and then, often ditched for a completely different title before I hit the publish...
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Community Question: Daughter Wants More Interaction
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Homeschooling is a Method Not a Mandate
Photo Credit: Meredith Sanders By Heather Sanders Yesterday’s Community Question was from a homeschooling mother wanting ideas for her daughter who prefers learning in group environments. She emailed...
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The Perks of Knowing Yours and Your Kids’ Personality Types
By Heather Sanders I believe I was in 7th- or 8th-grade when my Dad (I call him Daddy) brought home personality assessment tests for us to take based on the four temperaments. The tests identified...
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Community Question: Respecting “School” Hours
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How Parent Entrepreneurs Give Kids Freedom to Take Risks
By Heather Sanders My friend Jessica is a third-generation inventor. Over the past fourteen years of our friendship, we occasionally have talked about what it was like for her growing up as the...
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7 Time-management Secrets Every Homeschooling Mom Should Know
Leaning back on her elbows atop a handmade quilt she brought for us to sit on, my friend didn’t appear to have a care in the world. She smiled as she watched her kids playing hide-and-seek using the...
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How to Fail Standardized Tests and Still Be Smart
I received an 880 on my SAT in the Spring of my Senior year. I did not take any prep courses, didn’t even know they were available, and I can’t remember any of my friends taking them either. As you...
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The Insomniac’s Guide to Homeschooling at Night
My daughter Meredith is a night owl. It isn’t a new development; she was the child we had to lock IN her room at night once she learned to walk and turn a doorknob. Some people may think we were cruel...
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Community Question: CollegePlus?
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How to Be a Confident Homeschooling Momma (Even if You’re Not)
I’ve been homeschooling for several years now, and I think of myself as a confident homeschooling parent. That’s not to say I don’t second guess decisions I make from time to time. I do. That’s not to...
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4 Apps to Archive Your Kids’ Amazing Artwork
At the start of last week, while standing at the checkout at our local office supplies store, I realized markers weren’t on the list. I left the house with the kids’ supplies list, which included...
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Community Question: How to Start a Homeschooling Co-op?
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Can’t Keep up? 11 Ways to Simplify Choosing Next Year’s Homeschool Curriculum
By Heather Sanders It’s April, and your friends and favorite homeschool bloggers are already talking about their curriculum choices for next year. You’re thinking, “You’ve got to be kidding me!”...
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Twenty Interesting Things About…The Ampersand
By Heather Sanders Sometimes I work hard to find a topic I want to blog about, and at other times the topic shouts at me from two or three different places until I sit down and write it out. This post...
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Community Question: School Hours & Subjects Suggestions
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Don’t Make These 7 Mistakes When Studying
By Heather Sanders Most of the readers here are educators, but you are not the target audience for this particular post, which focuses on high school level kids, regardless of where their education...
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