School + Education

My birth daughter graduates from high school in a week or so. The irony is that my second daughter is graduating from Kindergarten. It is a bittersweet time—knowing this much time (18 years) has passed without me in her...

As parents there is a chance you have heard of Montessori schooling. But what is it really?  Should we know more about it? I am biased, but yes, it is definitely something that is worth a peek. I have...

When you were a kid, did you learn the saying, “Ain’t ain’t a word so I ain’t going to say it”? Yeah, I won’t be passing on that reminder to my own kids!   A colleague of mine with a strong...

As a mom, I often want encourage more creative play for my kids. When the colder months roll around it can be easy to find yourself dealing with extra screen time and extra bored or whiny kiddos. At least...

Raise your hand if you are forever looking for the other mitten that matches the one your child is demanding to wear. Or maybe you have a pile of artwork and whatever gets sent home from school that your...

I am a stay-at-home mom to 5 kids and I also homeschool. I really love that I get to stay home and that I get to teach my kids. But that doesn't mean it's always easy. I experience my...

Homeschooling is different from a public school setting in many different ways. Instead of getting into all of those differences, I'm just going to talk about one difference: having to manage multiple ages. In a classroom setting kids are...

My kids have been back in school for two full weeks now and on Saturday night one of them developed a cough... the first cough in over six months. I’m really not surprised; I know the teachers and staff...

Is there anything better than a reading a good book? If you're an avid reader, it feels so good to slip into a new story, but motherhood can really put reading back on the shelf, so to speak. My own...

One of the top questions I get asked about homeschooling is, "But what about socialization?" Or, "How do your kids socialize?" The concern about the social structure of homeschooling is a valid one. But there also can be some...