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 ...
Real World Learning
Bringing our homeschooling outside the home
Homeschooling doesn’t mean all learning happens in the home, it means all the world becomes a place to learn.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
How Can Having a Fourth Grade Student Save You Money?
We eagerly waited for our middle son to enter his fourth grade year because we had some exciting plans, and he was going to help us afford them. How does that work, you say? Well, there is a program to encourage all ...
How to Encourage Learning: Immerse Your Kids in Sand
This May, while on a family vacation with the grandparents, we took the boys to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Utah. We live in the Midwest, and don’t see a lot of sand dunes, not to mention the ocean. I ...
How to Get the Most from Your Museum Membership
Our science museum membership is one thing I am keeping forever. We have been members of the Science Museum of Minnesota for around ten years, and if they offered a lifetime membership I would seriously consider it. ...