I think there is often this idea that most of us believe at one point that homeschooling needs to look just like regular school done at your home. When other mothers say “oh, I could never homeschool”, they are often imagining pages of worksheets, coloring pages, spelling tests and planning for all the subjects. The…
I’ve been thinking a lot about living intentionally in the past year and when I was thinking of a name for this blog as soon as I thought of Intentional Homeschooling I knew it was perfect. WHAT IS INTENTIONAL HOMESCHOOLING? First of all, let’s start with what it doesn’t mean. WHAT IT DOES NOT MEAN To me…
This week is my daughter’s last week of kindergarten, after that she will officially be a homeschooler. While I’d love for her to take a little break and just enjoy a few weeks completely off, if I know her at all she will be asking me to teach her something by the time the week…
One of the first comments people mention to us when we tell them we are homeschooling involves the social aspect, or rather, the question of us worrying if they will be socially awkward or strange. How will our kids possible be socialized if they aren’t in a classroom all day? Truth be told, this was a…
When I was in elementary school I knew zero kids that were homeschooled. It wasn’t even a concept I was really aware of at the time. I had my first introduction to homeschooling when I was in my last year or two of high school, I was friends of friends with a girl who was homeschooled. A girl,…