How Do You Schedule the Unscheduled Days of Summer?

End of school always labeled freedom. I can’t help but remember those elementary days and how we all dashed out of the school building on the last day. Some of the kids ripped their papers out of their notebooks, letting the wind carry the testimony of the hours of work away. I was never one [...]

Preparing Homeschool Transcripts

                  I love homeschooling older kids. They challenge me with their subjects, curiosity, and creative insights. I seriously learn right alongside them, especially through the subjects that I barely scraped through when I was in school. But I don’t get such a kick out of preparing the [...]

Why do Homeschoolers Have Trouble with Grading?

I don’t know about you, but I have a tendency to plan out the entire year in depth, but when it comes to grading, I have trouble following through. Planning gives me a road map for me and my kids. Then each week, sometimes a little less, I look through the plans to make sure [...]

It’s The End of Homeschool Catch Up Time of Year

I know when the temperature starts climbing that I need to get into “Ducks-in-a-row” mode. The things I put off during the holidays have spilled over into winter and now I need to set them all aside again to end my school year. Assigning grades, administering tests, and that oh-so large mountain of curriculum I [...]

Special Challenges for the Home-Schooling Writer

Writers who are also home-schooling moms encounter special challenges when working on their careers.  I’ve been analyzing how to work through those challenges in order make the most of every writing opportunity. My first post in this series covers planning the project in order to jump directly into the story-world anytime a chance to write pops [...]

Home-Schooling Writer: Finding a Place to Write

With all of the demands of home-schooling how does someone take on the career of writing? My last two posts have dealt with this issue. I talked about how planning your writing in one way or another, depending on your process, gets you started in the right direction. Then I gave suggestions on how to [...]

How Does a Mother Balance a Writing Career with Homeschooling?

Home-schooling is already a full-time job, so how does a mother balance a writing career along with it? There are some specific things that we can do to adjust our teaching lifestyle so that we can also enjoy the talents and passion that the Lord instilled in us. In my last article, I spoke about [...]

Is Home-Schooling and Writing Possible?

A home-schooling writer? The title builds pictures of a pajama-clad woman huddled in the corner over her laptop. The view of her is partially blocked by a broken easel and a thriving tomato plant. Microscope slides and a celery stalk in purple water decorate her desk while a partially colored US map provides wallpaper behind [...]

Making Writing Fun for Kids

Here’s a novel idea. Writing is about writing, not spelling. (I’ll admit, I blinked when I read that. I had my schoolmarm hat on.) If you read my blog, you know I homeschool. You’d also know my mantra: Learning needs to be fun whenever possible! Handwriting for the K-3rd graders isn’t exactly a love affair. [...]

How to Write Without an Office

Does the lack of privacy keep you from writing? In a recent web class I learned more about the unique way I learn, write and study. I had to laugh but I’m in a stage of life where my natural needs in the way of office space (private, quiet, creatively decorated) aren’t an option. With five [...]

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