Hello Everyone! I am sooo excited to be finalizing many of my speaking engagements for 2020 and am very honored to be speaking this year at THREE Great Homeschool Conventions! Homeschoolers, let me first tell you why YOU need to attend a homeschool convention. Although you can do lots of things in a virtual manner, […]
No one will dispute the fact that science is continuing to advance. Our knowledge of how the world works increases each year. But that new information is also doing something amazing. It is showing us the importance of vestigial organs, creating a stumbling block to evolutionary theory. To help you understand all the science-y stuff, […]
More than once in the past few weeks I have had conversations with moms who were feeling frustrated with their situations. They had “put their career on hold” and they had to wait for the busy-ness of motherhood to slow down so they could “get back to what God had for them.” Folks. We have […]
How To Write a Lab Report – Apologia Over the years, many parents have asked me exactly how their students should be doing lab reports when they complete a science experiment. There are several helps out there, but I am so excited that we have just completed a very helpful YouTube video that goes through each […]
The earth spins around on its axis. Pretty much everyone understands that. And as it spins, we ride along, getting exposed to sunlight for half the time and darkness the other half. It is pretty interesting to see satellite images from their vantage point way up in space looking down at the surface testifying to […]
Yesterday, I was talking with my husband about how several students we’ve known since they were young are now mature and doing adult-y things like advancing in their careers and buying houses. It has been a joy to watch them mature and develop. How old are they? Most of them are in their early 20s. […]
Over the holidays, I had several conversations with my kids that involved me asking a question, such as, “Who was the actor who played the supporting character in that movie we just watched?” Within minutes, they had the answer for me, thanks to their always-handy phone and its access to the Internet. No need to […]
As the new school year approaches, homeschool moms are busy poring over lesson plans and curriculum in order to make sure we have all our bases covered. Well, at least in THEORY we are. Some years my lesson plans used the seat-of-your-pants method (that’s a method, isn’t it?). But I never actually took the time […]
My husband’s birthday is very close to Father’s Day. So though it is tempting to combine both of those events into one celebration, we try to celebrate his birthday a week before or a week after Father’s Day so we can specifically remember his birthday as a separate event. Well, this past weekend, as part […]
We all feel it. The pressure to make sure our children are meeting all the educational standards so they will be prepared for college and beyond. We make sure they have solid curriculum, engaging enrichment activities, and a good understanding of all things technological. If we see what we might think is an educational gap, […]