Project Potential: Make Someone Else a Winner!
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Lunchables. All opinions are 100% mine. Have you seen this video? If you have not seen it, you should. It’s adorable! It’s going viral right now…...
View ArticleGreen Eggs And…
Dr. Seuss was right! There is such a thing as green eggs! And I think Sam I Am was nutso for liking them. Yicko. That, my dear reader, is a green egg. My son read about an experiment with vinegar and a...
View ArticleMore Than Just “Mom”
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. When you’re a young mom, you kinda get sucked into motherhood, BIG time. I know I did. It becomes your...
View ArticleWhy High Schools Should Not Prepare Students For College
Short version: High schools should prepare students for LIFE. Not college. Long version: I have traditional ideas when it comes to education. That, and I haven’t seen a whole lot of educating going on...
View ArticleThis is For All the Grammar Nazis
I found this video on my friend Renee’s blog. The kids and I got a kick out of it, especially since we’re delving into English grammar for home lessons now. I caught an uncorrected mistake in this...
View ArticleThank you, Josephine Cochrane
I had to write an article about dishwashers recently, and did a little digging into the invention. A woman named Josephine Cochran invented it, in 1886! Our dishwasher is our favorite kitchen...
View ArticleKidzmet: Banishing Cookie Cutter Tutoring
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kidzmet for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. This is an extremely interesting organization: Kidzmet. You all know how I rail and rant about...
View ArticleChinese as a Second Language
My kids, for some reason, are nuts about the Far East: China, Japan, etc. I never had much interest, really, until they got into it. I think they expressed interest after reading some stories about...
View ArticleOnline Tutoring
Whether you homeschool or your child is in government school or parochial school, every kid needs one-on-one help. No textbook can provide everything the child needs, and neither can a teacher and...
View ArticleSchool’s Out! Or Is It?
Because we homeschool, we don’t technically have “summer vacation.” I like the consistent schedule and I do not like having idle children, so I’ve always assigned work for the kids, in some shape or...
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