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Organizing your homeschool is one of the most important tasks for maintaining success on the homeschool journey. If you struggle with organization you’re not alone. A mom once wrote to me asking for help with this issue. She had tons of great educational resources and lots of insightful teaching ideas—but had not implemented any of them. Disorganized and unproductive, she feared for her children’s education. Though she knew lesson plans would help her get school accomplished each day, this sweet mom felt inadequate when it came to creating and following the plans. She felt like a failure because she had […]

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I began my homeschooling journey with a deep conviction that this was God’s call on our family. Cultivating a love for God above everything else was a part of that call, and my passion to keep “first things first” was strong. Many of you felt that same calling. You knew God had great plans for your children’s lives and that He wanted to lead you as you guided their spiritual and academic development. God hand-picked you to be their mom and no teacher could love them, nurture them, or care about their success more than you. No teacher, except you, could […]

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God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. – John Wesley Whenever I have fallen out of regularly praying and then return—either with a friend or personally in my quiet time with my prayer journal in hand—I’m always astonished to see that the answers come so quickly. It’s as if I so easily and quickly forget that God is faithful to answer prayer. Every issue I worried and labored over for weeks, like how we would manage or what we would do with this child or that circumstance, is completely and beautifully resolved when I bring it before […]

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Did you know that homeschooled students perform better in college than their institutionally schooled counterparts? One reason is homeschooled students are used to being autonomous and independent in their learning; they are self educators. Our job as homeschool moms is to give our children progressively more autonomy and help them foster independence as they age. But how do we foster this independence? Well, once our children have learned to read, they should be reading to learn. As they progress through elementary school, we should provide materials that teach directly to the student, requiring less from us as their teacher. We […]

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Over the years, I’ve shared my story at conferences and workshops about how God led me to teach my son to spell. As a result, I’ve received many queries about the program that I used. In essence, I did not use a program, but a procedure. I want to share it with you in the hopes that it will help your struggling speller. The first thing to know is that reading and spelling are two different skills. If you try to use the procedure you learned for reading with spelling (phonics) you will be a horrendous speller. Children should be […]

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