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You Shouldn’t Compare Your Homeschool to Anyone Else’s
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Homeschooling isn’t a competition — so why do we feel so compelled to compare our kids to other homeschoolers and traditionally schooled kids? (Hint: It’s probably more about us than about them.)

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How to Get Excited about Homeschooling Again
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How to Get Excited about Homeschooling Again
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When your homeschool starts to feel like more work than fun, it’s time to make a change.

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Homeschooling Isn’t Just for the Kids
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Homeschooling Isn’t Just for the Kids
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5 surprising ways to build a homeschool life that works for your whole family — including you. “If your homeschool isn’t giving you personal satisfaction most of the time, something needs to change.”

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How to Be a Great Learning Leader in Your Homeschool
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How to Be a Great Learning Leader in Your Homeschool
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We all want our homeschools to produce curious, creative kids, but we shouldn’t forget that our children copy what they see us doing. If we want our kids to love learning, we have to show them that we love it, too.

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Growing Curiosity
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Growing Curiosity
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The way I garden is the way I homeschooled. I planted seeds, added plenty of supplies, space and time, and hoped for the best.

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Finding Out: Curiosity as a Way of Learning
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Finding Out: Curiosity as a Way of Learning
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When you shift your focus from WHAT to learn to HOW to learn, magical things can happen.

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A Day in the Life: Homeschooling a 12th Grader and a 6th Grader with a Full-Time Job
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A Day in the Life: Homeschooling a 12th Grader and a 6th Grader with a Full-Time Job
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There’s no “typical homeschool day” in our house, but here’s a representative day from 2019, when my oldest was a senior in high school, my youngest was a 6th grader, and I was juggling homeschooling with a full-time job outside the home.

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8 Ways to Spark a Breakthrough in Your Homeschool
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8 Ways to Spark a Breakthrough in Your Homeschool
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What you can do is engage in the process of putting the spark back in your homeschool exactly the same way you started your homeschool in the first place: with patience, trial and error, and a little expert advice to get you started.

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How I Talk to My Friends about COVID Homeschooling
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How I Talk to My Friends about COVID Homeschooling
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My friends are all excited about homeschooling right now, but their definition of homeschooling turns out to be pretty different from mine.

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6 Ways to Reinvent Your Homeschool (Without Spending a Dime)
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When you get that stuck-in-a-rut feeling — and we all do sometimes — these simple-to-pull-off changes can make your homeschool feel bright and shiny again.

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Real Steps You Can Take to Make Your Homeschool More Intersectionally Aware
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Real Steps You Can Take to Make Your Homeschool More Intersectionally Aware
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Don’t let the fact that intersectional homeschooling is a work in progress deter you from making it part of your own homeschool.

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When You’re the Only Homeschooler in Your Friend Circle
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When You’re the Only Homeschooler in Your Friend Circle
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Choosing homeschooling when your friends are on a different path can mean part of the path is a little lonely — and that’s okay. Finding your community takes time.

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The Bigger Picture of Multiple Intelligences
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The Bigger Picture of Multiple Intelligences
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Thinking beyond a single learning style can open up the possibilities in your homeschool. Maggie explains how it works for her.

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The Pleasures of Spring Homeschooling
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The Pleasures of Spring Homeschooling
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For our family, spring is when we emerge from hibernation.

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Homeschool Moms Need Friends, Too: How to Make Time for Mom Friends
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Homeschool Moms Need Friends, Too: How to Make Time for Mom Friends
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New friends for myself was not a perk I expected when I started on this journey so many years ago, but it’s one I would encourage every mom who makes a commitment to homeschooling to look for. Make sure you take some time to make friends with parents who are embarking on similar journeys.

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How Do You Homeschool Through a Financial Crisis?
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How Do You Homeschool Through a Financial Crisis?
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What happens to homeschool life when financial crisis strikes? We talked to three families who've been there, done that, and survived to share the strategies that are seeing them through tough times.

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Am I the Only Lonely Homeschool Mom?
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Am I the Only Lonely Homeschool Mom?
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Loneliness is one of those weird pieces of becoming a homeschool parent that we don't always talk about, but maybe we should.

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