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Get your Four Free Homeschool Resources for Christmas Today--New Lower Prices!
Buy Homeschool Sanity today!It's not easy being a home-schooling parent today. Educating one's children is a huge responsibility. There seem to be more “answers” than there are questions! Everyone has...
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Re-discovering Eclectic Learning
One-room schoolhouseIf there is anything that I have learned these past 25 years of homeschooling, it is that teaching children is not nearly as difficult as we have made it out to be over the past 100...
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Child's Play
The other day we had a major appliance repair and the busy technician left behind the most wonderful item; a huge magnet.As soon as I discovered the magnet, I opened the junk drawer and dug deep until...
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There is Still Time to Get in on the Lilla Rose Specials!
From Wednesday 3/20 through midnight Saturday 3/23 you will pay no shipping charge on any qualifying online order. What a fantastic time to try a Flexi or to add to your collection. How about that...
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There's still time to get in on Lilla Rose specials!
From Wednesday 3/20 through midnight Saturday 3/23 you will pay no shipping charge on any qualifying online order. What a fantastic time to try a flexi or to add to your collection. How about that...
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Wasting Our Children
I was at the library with two of my older daughters to other day. We were having a grand time together; the men were at home with the little ones and we were sharing and joking around (quietly--after...
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How You Can Teach Your Children Reading with the Revised McGuffey Readers
One room school-houseSomeone on the CMOMB (Christian Moms of Many Blessings) message group recently asked me to give some examples of how a typical schedule or routine of someone using the...
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A Few Important Words About Copy-work
From the Indiana School Journal: Volume 30, page 685, c. 1885I. General Aim.--The aim or purpose of language work is, in general terms, to train the mind. Specifically it is to give the pupil the power...
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Order Your Beautiful Lilla Rose Hair Jewelry Today! Contact Heather Mason
"Drop Bun" with "Open Flower Jet" clip"I am so thankful to have this opportunity to share a little bit about the lovely Lilla Rose hair jewelry that has simplified my mornings in such a wonderful and...
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Education welfare
No one wants to be a welfare case. It's just not American, it's not proper, it's not dignified to accept hand-outs that other people have been forced to pay for. But that is just what public education...
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Lilla Rose Mother's Day Specials brought to you by Heather Mason
Mother's Day will be here soon! Lilla Rose is offering a lovely, feminine gift idea for your special mother! An "extra small" flexi clip ($13) adorns a light-weight scarf beautifully! A medium size...
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Irregular Learning
A walk around the pondI am really enjoying what we are doing for school. The children are learning so much, and I can see their progress.The ones who are just beginning are already showing areas that...
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Older Children and Home Learning
Sometimes I think we get it too much of a hurry for our kids to grow up. We prod and push them to smile, to crawl, to walk, to ride a bike.But some children just will not cooperate with our schedules....
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Lilla Rose Mother's Day idea!
This would make a great gift for Mom (hint, hint)! *The FTC requires that I disclose that I am paid to advertise Lilla Rose products on my blog
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See the Light DVD Review/Giveaway!
Art is in our blood. We have artistic/creative-types on both sides of our family, and some have been quite successful. Five out of six of our grown children are in some way involved in Graphic Design,...
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One-Room School
We have a lot of trouble with the library--I have called checking out books my one acceptable "vice" for many years.When the children were younger we would check out maybe sixty books at a shot, then...
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McGuffey and the Christian age of America
There are reasons that we find the McGuffey readers so refreshingly moral. They were written in an age of incredible spiritual awakening in America. Here is an excerpt from the site Religion and the...
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Homeschool-lite: no-fuss learning
My little girl makes a basket!It's summertime--the weather is warm, and the birds and bugs are all around us. There is so much to do--we play basketball together almost every-other day now, and there...
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Creating answer key booklets for the Ray's Arithmetic series
I am very thankful for this "electronic age," which I believe God is using as a great blessing around the world. But I still tend to be very much the "analogue" in many ways!It is still hard for me to...
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Old-fashioned Spelling
I have read that other countries, whose languages are "phonemic" never need spelling lessons.But good, old English is just too hard to nail down; there are almost as many exceptions as there are...
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Teen Guide to Homemaking
A number of years ago I picked up a stack of books at a thrift store for about $.25 a piece. Among them, and much to my amazement, was a textbook which was entitled, Teen Guide to Homemaking, a book...
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How to use a McGuffey's, Part 1
Illustration from 5th McGuffey'sHere is a question that I received recently from a reader regarding the use of McGuffey readers:I wanted to know if you could give me some tips on how you use your...
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How to use a McGuffey's, Part 2
McGuffey's Pictorial Eclectic PrimerSome interesting questions have recently come up.First, I would like to explain the differences between the two sets of McGuffey's reprints that are now...
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How to Use a McGuffey's--Part 3
Here are some more specifics about using the McGuffey's Readers. Buy it in PDF FormatFirst, let me say that there are as many ways to use the McGuffey readers as there are ways to use hamburger! We can...
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A Call to Defend Honest Inquiry By David M. Hayes
It would seem small-minded to call it a conspiracy, but there is clear-cut evidence that numerous agencies are working in unison to prevent the dissemination of what are considered “dangerous”...
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