Tracking Your Preschooler’s Progress: One Easy Method

Tracking Your Preschooler’s Progress: One Easy Method

Recently, some friends of ours gave our kids a box of over 1000 stickers. As much as I enjoy scraping stickers off my hardwood floors, we decided to use them a bit more productively instead! Check out this fun and simple method for tracking and encouraging your preschooler’s progress!

Children Learn Everywhere

Children Learn Everywhere

Ah, the wisdom of John Holt!  It seems a simple idea, but we so often forget that our children are learning all the time through every experience they have and every idea they encounter. Read more to find out how our two-year-old reminded us of this simple fact in a surprising way!

Why Homeschool? An Interview with One of My Hero(in)es

Have a listen to an interview that nudged me over the edge into homeschooling!

The Read-Aloud Handbook: Whys and Whats of Reading to Your Children

The Read-Aloud Handbook: Whys and Whats of Reading to Your Children

Jim Trelease’s masterful treasury of read aloud books will help re-energize your reading with your children and build your wish list for your next library visit.

Teeny Tiny Carrots: Gardening with Preschoolers

Teeny Tiny Carrots: Gardening with Preschoolers

What we’re growing with our little ones this year, and why!

Sibling Bonding and Character Building

Sibling Bonding and Character Building

We chose homeschooling for many reasons, but among the most important is the time our children have to spend with their siblings.

Read Aloud with Baby

Read Aloud with Baby

All the parents who are sick to tears of “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,” this one’s for you!

Why I Quit

Why I Quit

I’m throwing in the towel. Here’s why.

Advent with Littles: The Donkey in the Living Room

The Donkey in the Living Room, by Sarah Cunningham, beautifully re-tells the Christmas story through the eyes of the animals and people present.  In an “Elf on the Shelf” style tradition, Cunningham suggests parents wrap the pieces of their Nativity

Stolen Moments: Nature Studies in Five Minutes or Less

Stolen Moments: Nature Studies in Five Minutes or Less

Did you know Charlotte Mason said little kids should be outside for six hours a day in fair weather?  That sounds awesome to me, Charlotte. Unfortunately, our schedule is a bit tight for that right now.  Since making the daylight