10 Things You Need to Make an Epic Living Room Forts with your kids Lies. Big fat lies! Living room forts are NOT just for little kids!! Call all the kids and announce you have a plan that requires zip ties, boxes, blankets, and food. Then watch their faces. Your big kids may look at you funny. That’s ok. If you dangle the correct snack, they’ll jump on board too. Once the BIG kids get on board, prepare yourself for some EPIC fort building! …Read More »
9 Tips to help Kids write Fabulous Essays 9 Essay Tips to help you write a fabulous final draft Writing an essay is like tuning a piano. In order to write an excellent essay, you need to understand your audience. In our home, we refer to this as a tuning fork. In the old days, piano tuners would ping a tuning fork and listen to the pitch of the note as they fine tuned a string on the piano. When the tone from the string matched the tuning fork, they’d know they had made the key sound the right way. …Read More »
College Proof Your Faith with Jay Seegert In this wonderful conversation with our guest speaker, my son Sam and I are glued to our seats as we glean wisdom about how to college proof our faith. (Or, life proof for those of us past college) This is a rough cut transcript of the AMAZING conversation we had with Jay Seegert with The Starting Point Project at A Better Way to Homeschool on Facebook. …Read More »
Homeschool Math: Grab your Roadmap to Success BEFORE you spend a moment worrying about math curriculum, let me share a secret. I didn’t understand where I was supposed to go until I’d been on the road almost 20 years. It’s crazy that it’s taken me almost two decades to truly understand this thing we call MATH. … Read More »
ABW 10: Teens and Business with Abby THE CHALLENGE: Help our Teenagers Launch their own businesses while earning High school Credit! Hold on to your hat! This one’s gonna be fantastic! Abby Banks with Making Room 4 One More will be here to give you quick tips and resources to help your kids step into the business world successfully! Bring your teens along for this one!
ABW 10: Teens and Business with Abby Teens and Business: Heck Yes! THE CHALLENGE: Help our Teenagers Launch their own businesses while earning High school Credit! Hold on to your hat! This one’s gonna be fantastic! Abby Banks with Making Room 4 One More will be here to give you quick tips and resources to help your kids step into the business world successfully! …Read More »
High School Electives for Homeschoolers Like chocolate and vanilla ice cream; teenagers and electives are meant for one another! What better way to take the reins of their learning, than to allow our teenagers to have a little bit of creative control over their future and learning. What is an elective? Homeschool electives are homeschool high school courses the help supplement core subjects or are geared to your child’s interest. Electives are a fantastic ways to teach your teen life skills. …Read More »
ABW 7: Growth Mindset Hacks with Meryl Growth Mindset Hacks with Meryl van Der Merwe from FundaFunda will be here to give us tips, tricks, and resources for our own growth. …Read More »
Despite What You May Think, Writing Doesn’t Have to be Boring Inside: 3 Writer’s Skills that Students should learn long before heading to college. Stealing is bad. Teaching kids to be thieves is worse. “But I would never do that!” the person next to you, says. … Read More »
The Real Secret to Teaching Homeschool Algebra and Higher Math Inside: The real secret to Teaching Algebra in Homeschool. I’m a liar. What is worse? Getting caught by my 9th grader. Now, I never meant to lie, most surely I did not. … Read More »