Climbing up While my parents set up bank accounts for my and my brother when we were young, and later checking accounts, and I got a lecture about money management, compound interest, and investing in the stock ...
Mindful Homeschooling
Bringing mindfulness into our everyday homeschooling
Bringing mindfulness to homeschooling makes so much sense because homeschooling can foster mindfulness through everyday choices.
Suddenly Homeschooling? I Have a Great Book for You
The Homeschoolers Are Not Hermits Quick Start Guide to Homeschooling Are you suddenly at home with your kids and wondering what homeschoolers do all day? My Quick Start Guide covers how to transition to being at ...
Interview: How to be a Homeschooler and an Entrepreneur
Susie Zahratka My friend Susie Zahratka is a homeschooling mom of four and an entrepreneur, the owner of two businesses. How does she do it? I get my writing done first thing in the morning before the kids are up, ...
A Quick Start Guide for New Homeschoolers
The Homeschoolers Are Not Hermits Quick Start Guide to Homeschooling These days it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the information out there for new homeschoolers. There are whole books on it. In fact, my first ...
From Summer into Fall: a Gentle Transition for Homeschoolers
Children's Museum The transition from school year to summer and back again can be as varied as homeschool families themselves vary, but there are some interesting things I’ve noticed as a homeschool parent that ...
I wrote my book to make a difference
Homeschoolers Are Not Hermits book Why I wrote my book I decided to write about our experience because so many people have helped our family along our homeschooling journey, and because whenever I meet someone ...
Plant a Native Garden With Your Kids
This is my Guest Post for the SEA Homeschoolers Newsletter. January is here, and those seed catalogs have already started arriving! When we go to the gardening store or look at the seed and plant catalogs that ...
Up Close: A Day in the Life
We’ve got three boys aged 6 to 15, and we have a lot of fun homeschooling. We’ve been homeschooling for a long time—really, since our first son was born. What else is it we’re doing with our kids but helping them ...
International Travel with Kids – Challenging but Rewarding
The biggest thing I learned on our trip to Japan this summer is that traveling with five people is very different than traveling alone or with one companion. You would think I would know this, ...
Find Your Child’s Learning Styles
One thing you can do as a parent is help your child figure out what kind of learner they are, so that they can find the ways that work the best for them when they need to learn something. We like to look at both ...
A Day in Tokyo: Disaster or Amazing?
My kids really help me look on the bright side of life, but sometimes it’s more in retrospect than when something is actually happening. I saw this a lot on our trip to Japan, most notably on our Ueno Park outing. ...
Great Summer Reading!
You should buy my new book. Why? Because, to my surprise, it’s actually quite a bit better than I thought it would be. Every time I flip through it I find myself sucked in and reading it again, even though I know it ...
Finding Your Child’s Multiple Intelligences
How can we help our kids to learn? Besides approaching learning with both patience and enthusiasm, I recommend finding out how their brains are wired. Everyone has different strengths, which are great to focus on, ...
Reading Out Loud Is the Best!
Reading to my kids is one of my favorite activities. My dad read to us every night until about middle school age, when we started to get too busy with homework and other activities. Those are some amazing memories, ...
Why We Let Our Kids Whack Their Friends With Swords
For almost three years now our kids have been going out every week and attacking their friends with swords. Yes, that’s right, they go out in the woods or to an island and have battles. No, it isn’t terribly ...
My Favorite Homeschooling Benefits
I have seen lists of benefits of homeschooling, entire pages of bullet points, but for me there are four main areas that pretty much encompass everything for our family. These are 1) the ability to tailor the ...
Why I Let My Son Quit Piano Lessons
This year we decided that the boys should learn some fundamentals of music. I am glad we did it, and I learned a lot from it. The boys also learned a lot, including some music. It was sort of a unilateral decision, ...