This post was contributed by Elissa Peterson. Elissa is a fun-loving, mess-hating homeschooling mama who enjoys dreaming up ways to keep her kids away from the television. Follow her creative pursuits athttp://dontletlifepassyouby.blogspot.com/ Most adults know the value of sending little ones out to play in the snow. However many moms are hesitant to bundle [...]
{Guest Post} Natural Decorating
April 21 By Leave a Comment
Natural Decorating We live in a world where art is all around us, waiting to be discovered by curious ands. I am speaking of nature, Mother Nature’s wonderful gift to us as our natural source for art. There is really no need to spend your weekend shopping in a chain holiday décor shop when you [...]
Television And Your Child's Development
January 21 By 7 Comments
Thoughts for parents about the effects of television watching on children – Current research highlights that it is not only what we watch on TV that has effect, but the watching of TV itself – regardless of program content. Children’s Development Needs Children learn to know the world through all of their senses which are [...]
Reasons To Homeschool
May 14 By 22 Comments
We’ve been considering homeschooling our children since before they were born. The education system model simply doesn’t fit our family’s way of parenting. There are lots of reasons parents might choose to home school their children – here are just a few. We’d love to hear your reasons to home school. Religious Reasons The education [...]
How Does Their Learning Environment Affect Your Child?
February 9 By Leave a Comment
I’ve noticed where we live, the primary (elementary) schools are increasingly looking like prisons. Surrounded by iron fences, topped with barbs, with chained gates that are locked as soon as the school day starts. My two youngest sisters are attending a government school, where the students are treated as suspects, with random bag and locker [...]
How To Grow Salt Crystals
January 20 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a fun chemistry project for your older children! Epsom salts are magnesium sulphate, and are soluble in water. What you are doing is creating a solution of water and Epsom salts, and then saturating it slightly (So not all of the salt crystals dissolve) You can suspend a string in the solution, and the [...]
Eco Friendly School Supplies
November 4 By 2 Comments
Whether you home school, public school or private school we all need school supplies. While we all try to go green on many things, one thing often overlooked is school supplies. Here is a list of some awesome and I dare to say “cool” natural school supplies. Backpacks / Lunchboxes Did you know they make a Solar [...]
11 Great Benefits When Homeschooling
October 25 By 2 Comments
Homeschooling can be confronting to many people and certainly your family if you choose to homeschool your children. There are many questions that get raised such as do you have the knowledge to teach your children everything and the most common one, what about social interaction? While I know homeschooling is not for everyone here [...]
