Back To School, Decisions, Encouragement, Homeschool, Other Tips and Topics, Planning
by Katie Julius September looms. First day of school photos fill your social media feed. School supplies have been picked over in the stores. You feel behind. You feel unprepared. You feel overwhelmed. You feel defeated. And you haven’t even started your school year...
Back To School, Encouragement, Getting Started, Homeschool, Mothers, New Homeschoolers, Other Tips and Topics, Planning
by Katie Julius I love this time of year. The store shelves are filled with rows of new school supplies – from a rainbow of three-ring binders to boxes of brand new, unbroken crayons to clean, crisp lined notebooks to freshly sharpened #2 pencils and more. While...
Getting Started, Homeschool, New Homeschoolers, Other Tips and Topics, Planning
by Katie Julius Those of you longtime homeschoolers may be reading the title of this blog quizzically since traditionally, we don’t really start talking about the Private School Affidavit (or PSA) until September as the October 1-15 filing window approaches. However,...
Curriculum, Encouragement, Planning
by Heidi Mosher This will be the best year ever. Do you tell yourself that, too, at the beginning of every school year while unboxing the perfect curriculum and collecting shiny new supplies? I hope we all have the best year ever, though the “stuff” we...
Decisions, Encouragement, New Homeschoolers, Planning
by Christa Svoboda [Editor’s Note: We are looking forward to Christa joining us at CHEA’s Parenting & Homeschool Conference, July 13-15 in Downey. This is just a preview of Christa’s fun and encouraging heart that she will share with attendees this summer....
Curriculum, Field Trips, Holidays, Planning
by Katie Julius Whether or not California, especially Southern California, actually has “fall” in the traditional sense is up for debate. But, don’t let our unseasonably warm weather this time of year stop you from enjoying some fun fall activities across the Golden...