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Category: Homeschooling
Homeschooling tips, advice, pain, joy, jokes, and burnout from a 25 year veteran
8 Ways to Make Homeschooling Great Again
Are you stuck in homeschooling? Do you feel as if you’re running in place? Gasping for breath, feeling the burn but going no where? Time seems to loop like the […]
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Homeschool Impossible: Your Spouse Helps Teach – Nicht!
Our children do not speak German. That is the single biggest regret of my homeschool career. Find out what went wrong on today’s episode of Homeschool Impossible. You are probably […]
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20 Minutes of Joy for Homeschool Winter Burnout
What did Melville write again, “The damp, drizzly November in my soul whenever I find myself pausing involuntarily before coffin warehouses?” That is exactly how winter homeschool burnout feels – […]
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On Mass Cops and Noisy Babies at the Latin Mass
“Was it your child we could hear all during Mass?” the lady demanded to know. She took me by surprise. Who was this person? I’d never seen her before at the […]
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Teach Modesty Modest-ly
I started writing this modesty article twelve years ago. Why the rush? Let’s just say I enjoy this topic about as much as men enjoy talking about childbirth. Would it […]
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Homeschool Impossible: The Clutter Episode
Welcome to Homeschool Impossible. The column that wishes it were a reality TV show. It’s not your average reality show. The goal is not to create chaos and then film it: […]
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Homeschooling Is your Second Job
It was one of those homeschooling days. The kids were brutes and I was a beast. Later, when I forgot the soup and it turned to swill, I thought, “How […]
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The Pointless Peerless P. G. Wodehouse
If you haven’t read P. G. Wodehouse, you have no right to say that you have lived and you really should remove such claims from your business card. What matters […]
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