Comments on: Managers of Their Homes – Scheduling for Homeschooling Families

By: Children and Chores

Children and Chores — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:57:52 +0000

[...] the serious mother – Managers of Their Homes is a comprehensive tool. Curriculum Choice has a review of this product. It’s well worth the cost and effort. There’s an edition [...]

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:15 +0000

I took the plunge a couple weeks ago and bought this book. I honestly believe that this is the tool I need to gets things straightened out for us. I’m not very organized naturally, so I need some help.

I love the book and am now working on putting together the schedule. Thank-you for the review and all the comments! I have been reading over a lot of reviews of this book and I think they have all really helped me to understand that I have to be flexible and use the ideas and schedule and not let the schedule rule my life.

Thank-you!
Annie´s last blog ..Managers of Their Homes

By: Tiffani

Tiffani — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:41:21 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It is helpful to hear people say they have used it and benefitted from it even if they use it more “loosely.” I have debated about purchasing it for a couple of years, feeling that as with other things, it will be too overwhelming and I won’t use it and it will have been a waste of money. But we are getting to the point of desperately needing what this sounds like it will provide.

By: Jessica Stemmerding

Jessica Stemmerding — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:41:39 +0000

Yes, I just bought this book and have been reading it. I feel very blessed to have the information…and I plan to use a schedule. Whether or not we meet it (daily)…at least I have a guideline—which is the something I wanted and needed help with. This book provides that!

By: Rachel R

Rachel R — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:54:14 +0000

I learned a LOT from this book – purchased about 3 years ago along with their “Managers of their Chores” book. I first tried a very structured day – but because I live next door to my sister’s family and my parents, something always threw us off schedule.

Now we have a much looser schedule that has more flexibility for surprises built into it and this is working much better for us. I still refer to the book whenever I set up a new schedule or something isn’t working – but I don’t get worked up over every 30 minutes being structured.

I did take the 3 schedule boards to an office supply store and had them laminated – which makes it so much easier to move the sticky stuff around when we are working on how a schedule should run. I do make a detailed schedule twice a year to make sure that the tasks actually will fit – but when we execute the schedule the school areas all become “school” in two big blocks instead of lots of tiny blocks.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:32:08 +0000

Kris, from Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers sent me over here to read this review, since I am considering using this product. Thanks for taking the time to post about it!

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:57:57 +0000

this sounds like some medicine that i need to take.

By: Anna-Marie

Anna-Marie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:16:19 +0000

I have most all their books. I appreciate their consistency and commitment to Biblical living. MOTH is a goal for me but I have trouble with such a tight schedule. I know if I follow it I will be more productive but getting there is not so easy for me. The book is full of wonderful advice and tips. And even though it is consumable, the refill packets are less than $10 with shipping, so it’s not too pricey every few years.