The school year is winding down and summer is coming!  yay!

Have you been thinking about the possibly of trying homeschooling next school year?  Do you know someone who is?

Homeschooling can be very rewarding and doesn’t have to be as hard as it might look at first.  

This week we are running a sale on:

You Can Do It Too – 25 Homeschool Families Share Their Stories

Only .99

(regularly 9.99)

This isn’t a how-to book, this isn’t a book comparing all the different teaching styles, this isn’t a book comparing regular school to homeschool…. Read the rest of this entry →

Way back, long long ago, back when there were covered wagons and sod houses, back when there was mostly prairie grass and dirt roads, back around the time Brenda was born (haha, just kidding.  I have to bug her cause she is older than me) there was a little school house in Nebraska.  Little, cute, and white

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Released today!

If you homeschool, want to homeschool, are curious about homeschoolers, are burned out with homeschooling, or just looking for some cool people to learn about this is the book for you

I started working on this project several months ago.  I have had struggles with homeschooling and have been overwhelmed with all the different options out there.  I know my kids will do better at home, I have seen it in the past two years, but I struggled a lot with if I was doing the best job I could.

I wondered… what do the ‘real’ homeschool parents do.  I mean, the ones that have been homeschooling lots longer than me.  I knew of several bloggers who had more kids than me and homeschooled (and acted like they enjoyed it).  What was their secret?  What did they actually do during the day?  What have they learned? How did they know it was working?

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Last Friday we took a trip to the river to explore.  Turned out cooler and the water higher than I had wanted but we got out to the sand bars and wandered around for a while.  We even got to watch a vulture eat a fish from pretty close up.

But where we really learned about current was last Monday when we went to see the President’s speech in Council Bluffs  People everywhere.

Bryon took the kids on Sunday to see if they could get tickets and they somehow managed to play cute enough to get VIP tickets.

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We took some pictures of the kids this evening finishing their school projects.   Lily was working on cooking (a school subject on her request) making monkey bread and Ian was finishing his math.

I have to admit I had a lot of fun with Mondays post interviewing the kids.  They had a bunch of fun too

This week we started out homeschool.  I didn’t plan on starting for a few more weeks but we pulled the books out to start planning last Sunday and the kids decided they wanted to start.  How can I say ‘no’ to that?

Monday Aug 6 began our homeschool year.  I think it is our 4th …but early education is kind of fuzzy on what is school and what isn’t.  I have come a long way in the last few years with how I homeschool and even what I think of homeschool.  There has been struggles but overall I think we are getting somewhere.  Really I think God gives us kids to break/teach us.  I am sometimes a slow learner.

To continue the interview with the kids…Lets ask the kids about homeschool:

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I have been working this summer on a super fun project!

You Can Do It Too!  25 Homeschool Families Share Their Stories

Born out of my own homeschool curiosities and challenges I decided to put together a book including interviews with a whole group of amazing homeschool moms.  I needed this book, but in order to convince them to answer all my questions I figured I would share it with you too

So I have compiled the interviews and they are being edited and approved as you read this.  We are shooting for a launching date of Aug 23.

I will keep you posted

I wanted to quickly share with you a method for electronics use we are trying out for summer break. I didn’t come up with it. I read it in a parenting book several years ago…but because I don’t have any of my books anymore… I don’t know which one it was.

Kids need downtime and summer break is great for them. However, without school and other activities going on it is easy for them to sit in front of a screen way to much. This would include TV, computer, electronic games, etc. These are fun and I want my kids to be able to enjoy them, but I don’t want them to become addicted and waste there whole summer either.

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I am working on a homeschool project this summer.  It is just starting to come together and I wanted to share it with you and ask for some help with it.

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 I still have so much to learn about this whole parenting and home schooling thing.  I have been home schooling now for three years and have been learning and changing the whole time.  …maybe by the time my kids grow up and move out I will have it figured out

When reading The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook a few weeks ago I came across the term ‘Super Baby’.  They talked about several failing experiments for making super smart kids.  They fail because there is so much more to learn than just book smarts.  Social and emotional growth and being a kid is so important. Read the rest of this entry →

I want to thank everyone for the great response I got from my first ‘job’ post a few weeks ago.  We were blown away with all the ideas!  I love you guys

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