We take our homeschool summers off. We’re not like those homeschoolers who go at it all summer with a two-week break to sleep it off. We get off at the beginning of June. This year, we legged it for a […]
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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 movie Ground Hog Day; every day is like the one […]
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Homeschool Impossible: When Your Spouse Helps Teach – Nicht!
To be good at homeschooling, or at least to not let it lick you, you have to be good at the failures that are part of the everyday – the drawer full of broken pencils, the quarrel over the last working pen, the notebook that fell in with the odd socks and was swallowed whole.
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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 – only forget November. November is National Decorating Season in America. […]
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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 Latin Mass. I blinked a few times to adjust to […]
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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 surprise you to know that I’m not alone? Many of […]
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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: Mixed singles in their twenties… a summer camp situation… heh heh heh… […]
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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 appropriate.” The family assured me that it tasted fine but […]
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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 it, if you have read the entire Summa backwards in […]
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