I grew up online. That might sound extreme to some of you, but it is incredibly accurate. When I was four, my mom walked in the living room to find me on the computer. When she asked what I was doing, I replied “I’m sending an email to multiple recipients”. Yes, I had an email […]
If you look at any given homeschool curriculum, you’ll see that the last twenty lessons or so look almost identical to the first twenty lessons of the next year. Why is that? Summer Brain Drain. Really. We teach kids for nine months, and then they spend three months forgetting what they just learned. It’s a […]
When I was a kid, my family had to ration bananas because with me in the house the whole bunch would disappear in one day. As a picky kid, bananas were considered a “safe” food, and I would eat them by the dozen if I could! Now that my kiddos have eating struggles of their […]
Father’s Day is coming, and there are millions of crafts and cards out there on Pinterest, but I always struggle with finding something realistic for my kiddos to do. See, I’m not crafty. My sensory kiddos can’t stand finger paint, and I’m not clever enough to come up with a catchy poem. It isn’t that […]
My boys are lovely, and they love animals, but they are far from gentle. It can be hard for them to understand that animals have feelings, and they should be as gentle with them as they are with their baby sister. The most difficult part is that we can’t really teach them to be gentle […]
I was ready to have a preemie. I had the car seat installed early, I had the babysitter ready to spring into action, I had the diapers and little onesies all pre-washed and organized. All of this, months before I was due. Of course, I didn’t even know my due date, nor did anyone else. […]
