Author: mymentech

What’s worse than a day when no one feels like doing school, but you have to do it anyway? I always felt it was much worse to be in the middle of a great school school day, with everyone engaged in lessons, then having the whole thing interrupted by a phone call that pulls you away and creates distraction for your children.

Hopefully you are in the groove of your new school year and things are falling into place. Those bumps of getting started have smoothed out and you are on a nice roll. Until your student lets you know that the “routine” is getting a little, well, routine.

It is ‘easy’ to write up a schedule/routine for our children and yet is it real? Is it purposeful? Does real life overwhelm us and the plans that we make fly out the window. Being intentional is based on reality not on fanciful...

I used to be a really fun mom. Then I got really busy with schooling and keeping a home for more than a couple of kids. Seriously. It took me awhile to realize I had stopped doing the fun stuff.

The Homeschool Mom is, to many, a strange, elusive being. I thought I would share with you today 10 things you should know about this fascinating creature. It should go without saying – but it probably doesn’t – that I don’t...