Homeschool Mom Helps

Homeschool moms wear many hats – teacher, mentor, planner, project coordinator, coach, organizer, and MORE!

Each homeschool day brings new experiences and often new challenges.  As homeschool moms ourselves, we understand that it can sometimes be hard to find information and answer to the many questions we face regarding homeschooling our family.  Today we are focusing on MOM as we offer encouragement, ideas, tips, and suggestions we have learned over the years.  Please take a few moments for you and check out our Homeschool Mom Helps!

From The Curriculum Choice Archives

• The Big Book of Homeschool Ideas: 55 Moms Share Their Expertise on 103 Topics –  What can you do if you have a homeschool related question?  55 homeschool moms (myself included) have come together to share their tips, tricks, and hearts about 103 topics that impact every homeschool mom.
• Beat the Homeschool Blues – A collection of ebooks designed to encourage you for the journey as well as give you practical tools to address the areas that aren’t working in your homeschool
• Wrapping up a Homeschool Year – Storage Ideas & Graduation – the authors here at The Curriculum Choice want to share with you lots of great ideas  for storing the remnants of your homeschool year, as well as planning for graduation.
• Feeding the Homeschool Family – Quick and easy (and sometimes educational) meal ideas!
• Help for the Bad Homeschool Days – Yes!  We have bad days too!  Here we share posts full of encouragement for the bad days. You’ll catch a glimpse into our bad days and how we pull through them.
• Homeschool Rooms & Organizational Ideas – The authors here at The Curriculum Choice want to help you get organized by sharing our homeschool rooms and organizational ideas for everything ‘homeschool.’

From Curriculum Choice Authors

The Curriculum Choice authors have active blogs where they regularly offer ideas and experiences about their homeschool adventures.  Below are links they have shared to encourage and support homeschool moms.

Susan & Megan at EducationPossible

Lessons for a Homeschool Mom – My wish is that all homeschool moms will have a heart to embrace and support each other.  To get things started I would love to offer 4 short but very important lessons for a homeschool mom.

Note to Homeschool Parents: How to ACE the New School Year – By remaining mindful of three things I hope all homeschool parents will ACE the new school year.

I Can’t Homeschool Because my Kids are in Middle School –  There are many reasons why parents decide to stop schooling their children at home once they start middle school. What frightens parents about homeschooling middle school?

 

Stephanie at Harrington Harmonies

The Ultimate Homeschool Planner Review– If a planner may be needed to organize your homeschool a bit more, this flexible planner from Apologia is an excellent choice! Lots of adequate and extra space plus tons of adaptability!

What to Do on Bad Homeschool Days– Sometimes no amount of being creative will work. That’s why we call them bad days. When it’s that bad, I just stop. Get a cup of coffee or do whatever gives you peace. Using small strategies on bad homeschool days are something every homeschool mom must learn.

Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Artistic Children-Are your children creative? imaginative? inventive? expressive? Do they have natural creative ability? Then they are artistic children and should be homeschooled as such.

How to Battle Homeschool Boredom with Extras– Sometimes a curriculum just looses it’s luster for one reason or another. Perhaps you have gotten everything you can from a particular subject. Maybe it’s just not working for your child. Maybe it’s become more difficult than you thought or it’s not challenging your child enough. Don’t use something just because you bought it. Be adaptable and be free to evolve.

Betsy at BJs Homeschool

Do you have a teen who is aiming towards college?  “Our Steps to College” is an ongoing blog series, offering encouragement, to make the college admissions process easier. Lots of encouragement for homeschooling high school here,too, including what we did for my daughter’s senior year at home.

Are you wondering what to do with your little ones, while you are helping their older siblings?  Here is my page on Early Learning, at BJ’s Homeschool, where I share many ideas for the preschool/primary years, with ideas on early math, fun language arts, and more.  Easy to do, and helpful,too.

Are you looking for a little homeschool help? I am a veteran homeschooler and a consultant.  People ask me questions about homeschooling.  No question is too small, and it’s free. For more information, please click here.

Tricia at Hodgepodge

Simplify Your Homeschool With the Ancient Paths – Every now and then it is a good habit to look at the foundation of our home schools, our families. Sometimes we can get a bit top heavy in one area. Other times we are so very busy doing what that other successful family is doing – even though we have that nagging feeling it just isn’t right for our homeschool.

HELP! I’m Homeschooling – For over a dozen years we’ve turned to our habits as the ‘bones’ of our day. Our habits help us accomplish a basic school day and get food on the table. With babies, toddlers, stacks of school books, hungry mouths and now towering teens, these are the basic routes I’ve discovered for seeing results. Help! I’m Homeschooling! is packed with the practical, how to advice to encourage you and build your confidence – whether you are a brand-new homeschooler or a seasoned veteran.

6 Simple and Successful Strategies for Homeschooling a House Full – Y’all this is like a two hour long chat! I am a very practical person. And I am blessed with homeschool mentors. So I am sharing the simple strategies that have worked best for us over the last fourteen or so years of homeschooling.

Art for All Ages – FREE art lessons that are simple and easy to do in 10 minutes or less. Clear the table after lunch and watch the smiles spread. I hope you will find much encouragement and are reminded that you ARE an artist! We wish you many art-filled afternoons!

Cindy at Our Journey Westward

Organizing the Unorganized Learner will help EVERYONE in the house to keep their sanity – especially mom.

This Charlotte Mason Homeschooling Resource Page simplifies the CM method so that you CAN do it!

Do you need a homeschool pick-me-up?  Whether your children are whiny or obstinate, or you are burnt-out and need a break, you can find homeschooling refreshment by taking lessons outdoors!  This Nature Study Resource Page will help you liven up lessons with real science that breathes fresh air (literally) into your homeschool.

Speaking of whining and needing a break – how are your math lessons, momma?  If you need a pick-me-up in the this area, I just know you’ll find some refreshing and meaningful ideas on the Living Math: Ultimate Resource Page.

 

Kyle at Aspired Living

Howdy, I’m Kyle and I really want every homeschool Mama to know in their heart of hearts that you are the best teacher for your child! As such, please be encouraged as you go through these tough,fun & challenging years of homeschooling. If I could sit down with every new homeschool Mama “Looking Back: Advice to New Homeschooling Mamas” contains some of the things that I hope I would say to her and that I pray her heart would hear.

My 3 part Series on Homeschool Planning provides helpful hints that will help lead you down the path of a smooth year. The 3 parts are: How to Create a Curriculum Spreadsheet , How to Save Money on Curriculum and How to Plan Your Calendar Year.

How to teach your child to revise his writing provides an effective method to help you teach your child how to revise their writing no matter which program they are using.

Homeschool Distinctives  are the set of guiding Biblical principals that we set up to help steer our homeschool.

“Homeschool Distinctives gave me an opportunity to give our homeschool the focus it lacked.”

Ultimate Guide to Classical Curriculum is an exhaustive (and exhausting) list of Classical Curriculum Providers, Co-ops, Continuing Education & Bloggers. We will begin by looking at the Classical Curriculum providers that offer curriculum choices across all subjects.

Annie Kate at Tea Time with Annie Kate

Homeschool moms have so much to think about, to do, and to remember. When it all gets overwhelming, here are a few ways to bring peace back into your heart, home, and homeschool.

When I was wondering how to ensure that learning goes on during challenging times, I was helped by Learning Skills Little by Little and Day by Day.

When we are overwhelmed it is so tempting to stick to book learning only, but that is probably the best time to give our kids and ourselves the grace of taking on some low-stress extras and cutting back on book learning. Beyond the Basics:  Making the Extras Work in Your Homeschool gives some tips for this.

When we are homeschooling a high schooler, we have an extra worry: we want to make sure that homeschooling will not limit our teen’s options in the future.  Homeschool Mommy Marks and Universities gives some practical advice and encouragement.

This fall has been overwhelming for our family, and I have been helped by rereading my own ‘encouraging mom’ posts. Maybe they will help you too.

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What great tips, tricks, and resources do you often share with other homeschool moms? 

As a veteran educator, Susan is always looking for new ways to bring learning to life for her family.  Her family’s favorite subjects to study together are history, geography, and literature.  Susan shares her family’s educational adventures at Education Possible.