Author: mymentech

What if you had a good friend, who happened to be a wonderful art teacher, come into your home and help you teach art? That‘s the flavor of Visual Manna.

Sometimes it helps to explain the legality of your homeschool, so there will not be misunderstandings or additional questions. These extra steps are not usually necessary, but for some situations, explaining that you homeschool legally is appropriate, especially for parents dealing with an uncooperative university or situation.

In schools there is a subject called “Health and Physical Education”. How do we, as homeschoolers, address this subject? In schools there is a subject called “Health and Physical Education” (or some similar title. Subject names...

Let’s face it. Homeschooling is flat out hard work. On top of that tons of organization books and blogs stand ready to take up our precious time. The problem with most organizational books is that the tips are normally based on...

As our kids grow older our parenting role is more about guiding than instructing. When we were instructing our kids, if they didn’t follow through we’d call that disobedience and deal with it. But what happens when they are...