Getting it All Done

Teaching, housework, scheduling...what's a Mom to do? The articles in this category will help with all that and more!

Breathing Room

I scan my hastily scrawled schedule as I wait at a red light. 1:50 - drop Emily at Madeline's house to give a piano lesson. Get stamps at Post Office. Stop by Brown's Shoe Store. 2:20 pick up Emily; drop her and Joe at Central Band for lessons. Take back (overdue) library books . . . READ ARTICLE

Crisis Homeschooling

Have you ever had "one of those days"? You know, the kind where nothing goes the way you planned it? Things happen that you don"t want to happen, or things refuse to happen when you DO want them to. Well, around our house, the past few months have been "one of those days" – one after another, after another, after another. . . . READ ARTICLE

Everybody Together Now

I have to hand it to the schoolteacher of yesteryear — my grandma was one of them — that taught eight or more grades simultaneously and lived to tell the tale! Currently I've got four and a half children in school . . . READ ARTICLE

Getting It Done

Getting it all done . . . hmmm . . . have you ever longed to feel like that is happening? I think as homeschool moms we all go through moments (sometimes days and even years) when we daydream about feeling like we've done enough to sit down and relax for a while . . . READ ARTICLE

How to Combine Subjects

Combining subjects can be a most efficient homeschooling technique. Instead of five to eight separate time slots, you can spend bigger blocks of uninterrupted time on one topic while covering most subjects . . . READ ARTICLE

Now Where Did I Put That?

Do you ever find yourself asking that question? The homeschooling lifestyle has a way of causing many of us to accumulate a lot of “stuff.” Sometimes keeping track of everything, and remembering where it is when you need it, can seem like a full-time job . . . READ ARTICLE

Scheduling and the Homeschool Family

“Scheduling” has become one of the buzzwords of the homeschool community. The big question is, “How do I get everything done?” There are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week. That seems like a lot of time! But start filling in activities, and pretty soon, you might run out of time before you run out of things to do. . . . READ ARTICLE

The Gift of Goals

What I did was not only help our daughter write out her goals for the year, I gave her the Gift of Goals. The ability for her to write them for herself year after year . . . READ ARTICLE

When Daddy Travels

My husband's job often entails travel, but he attempts to make the trips short: overnight or several nights at the most. However, even short trips can seem long when I'm "mom-ing" the children alone . . . READ ARTICLE