Author: mymentech

For most homeschooling families I know, it’s the mama who’s in the day-to-day trenches, juggling homeschooling with housework and diaper changes and attitude adjustments–sometimes the kids’ and sometimes her own. Here are the ways my husband is involved in our homeschool.

When I first began homeschooling I asked a friend how to do it all. Her response? “Hire a maid!” At first I thought she was joking until I realized she did in fact have hired help.

Young children will appreciate this hands-on approach to developing analytic thinking skills via an exploration of shapes, colors, and patterns.

Last year, a friend of mine asked if she could come and observe a day in our life as a homeschooling family. This friend was a hopeful wanna-be-homeschool-mom of four young children, and she drove several hours just to spend the day at my home.

Though I am not a second generation homeschooler, does it count that I witnessed my mother homeschool my younger sister?