August 8, 2012
Before I design a curriculum you need to know your goals. You build a curriculum around your family values and educational goals. Our elementary curriculum is designed to meet our children's unique and specific needs and work towards our family’s goals in the context of everyday living; and a curriculum ...
July 18, 2012
To purchase a copy of the audio recording of this session click here. There has been a keen interest in my group homeschool coaching idea. So, let's try it together, shall we? Most of you who contact me for homeschool coaching are just getting started or near the beginning of ...
June 15, 2012
Outward activities - when our energy is engaged in the world (which may be in or out of the home), alternated with inward activities - when we fill that energy with quiet, is a pattern I've established in my personal time management and in our parenting and homeschooling in general.
June 11, 2012
As much as I have resisted this in the past, flux, more than ever, is my reality.
June 6, 2012
Where we usually live, in our community on the beautiful Gaspé peninsula - with mountains, rivers, and outdoors aplenty - there no other homeschoolers, that we know of. Notice how I started off with what I love about where I live? Because that's why we live there. We didn't move ...
May 25, 2012
Last winter I read the popular parenting book Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids. I wrote a short review of it also, which you can read here. In that review I wrote this short summary: I definitely recommend (this book) ...
May 21, 2012
Today I'm happy to introduce you to my friend Louise Johnson. Louise started a homeschool hiking group in their community and I asked her to share her experiences in an interview.