Does Homeschooling Benefit Parents?
There’s much discussion on whether or not homeschooling benefits children. But, how many...
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The FAMILY WAY to Health and Physical Fitness
Inspiring families to create healthy habits together, Saturday Sept. 28th is designated National...
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Teaching life skills – part 2
Teaching life skills can be whatever you think it should be. The skills I have listed here are just a few. Implementing life skills is easy to do every day. Just start with the basics and go from there.
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Why I started paying my kids an allowance
Every parent has gone through this issue. Do you pay your kids for doing chores and household work? We decided that teaching our children financial responsibility was very important. In order to accomplish that, they have to have a little bit of their own money.
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Raising Young Entrepreneurs
This summer, I treated my kids to a paddleboat ride. I knew they loved it but what I didn’t know was that my nine year old had so much fun that he was setting aside some of his hard earned cash to pay to do it again. So where did he get his money? We don’t do allowances. I’m not entirely opposed to the idea, there certain are benefits and lessons kids can learn through them, we just don’t do it.
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Pretend and Play Cash Register
After winning almost every imaginable toy reward, we felt this “toy” deserved a place in our catalog!
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How Can I Afford to Homeschool?
Lots of people, considering homeschooling, tell me that they would really like to homeschool but they are struggling to see a way to do it financially.
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Exploring Economics
Like the other homeschool-friendly curricula published by the Notgrass family, Exploring Economics provides careful integration of biblical study and worldview with broad-based coverage of the topic – this time, economics.
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Homeschooling on a Budget
The average family will spend $500 per child for homeschooling materials, and while this is significantly less than the typical cost per child in the public school system ($10,000+/year), individual families may be on either end of this spectrum.
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A Philosophy of Education
Many times as new homeschoolers or even as not-so-new-homeschoolers we’re encouraged to develop a personal philosophy of home education. That sounds a little scary, doesn’t it? But really, all it means is that you’ve thought through some very basic factors that define your home school and that will impact your homeschooling curriculum choices.
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