No-Sweat Homeschooling
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The decision to home school your kids is one you'll never regret, though the path can often be confusing and frustrating. I fully believe that homeschooling should be as much fun for you as it is for your children. After all, you'll be spending many hours each week together learning new things, so why make it monotonous, stressful, or boring?
Instead, with a bit of ingenuity, you can turn even the smallest everyday task into a learning opportunity that sticks with your children for life. This is what No Sweat Home Schooling is all about.
I'll cover whole curriculum subjects, frugal field trips, record keeping, fun activities, stress and mess busters, the Charlotte Mason Method, and more. I also include a lot of quality online resources. I look forward to sharing my experiences and ideas with you!
Kelly Wallace
Kelly Wallace is a best selling multi-published spiritual and self-help author, radio show host, and has been a professional psychic counselor for over twenty years. She can see, hear, sense, and feel information sent from Spirit, the Universe, and a client's Higher Self. Whether your problems or concerns are in the area of love, finances, family, career, health, education, or your path in life, she offers affordable professional intuitive counseling, caring guidance, and solutions that work! More than just a typical psychic reading or counseling session, you will feel you've found a real friend during your time of need--whether you simply want answers and guidance to your current worries or concerns, or you're interested in learning more about your soul mate, spirit guides, past lives, or anything else. Visit her site today and book a reading! DrKellyPsychic.com
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great resource for curious homeschooling moms! Easy read and lots of real life examples.
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No-Sweat Homeschooling - Kelly Wallace
My Journey In A Nutshell
Out of my five daughters, the two oldest went to public school all the way through high school. A move from California to a rough area of Baltimore had me quickly pulling my two younger daughters right out of school in the third grade and homeschooling them myself. My youngest never went to public school. It was a decision I wish I had made with my older girls. Live and learn though, right?
For the most part, I used the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling, but I also incorporated some of my own ideas such as a whole curriculum
or across the curriculum
art, history, or social studies lessons. Being a frugal person who values both time and money, I needed to get the most education I could out of everything we tackled.
A few years after I started homeschooling my girls I was divorced for the second time. Although my nerves were just about frazzled beyond all hope, I simply tied them in a knot on top of my head and went about my life. Having the kids home all the time did contribute to a bit more mess, but we have memories that could never be replaced had I sent them to public school.
While on this path I was also a work-at-home mom doing freelance writing. I didn’t want it any other way and couldn’t see any other way to make our lives work. If I had a 9-to-5 job, then who would watch my kids and be their teacher? I surely wasn’t sending them back to public school, which I aptly called Kiddie Prison.
Like all self-proclaimed Super Moms, I found a way to make it all work.
The level of education my girls received compared to their public schooled friends is beyond anything I could have imagined. We simply did what was fun and interesting, and things that were logical and necessary. For any parent who has homeschooled, I’m sure you know the joys—and pitfalls—of being a parent and educator to your children.
And for those parents who are thinking about homeschooling but aren't quite sure about it, let me tell you that it’s the most rewarding journey you will ever take with your kids. You have a front-row center seat as you watch them blossom and grow. If I can do it, so can you!
My Decision to Homeschool
When people find out that my three youngest girls were all homeschooled they look at me with something akin to both shock and admiration. They then ask why I decided to do it. I talked a bit about my decision to homeschool in the previous section, but there’s more to it than that.
Then again, why do we feel we need a reason to homeschool? Do our kids need to be picked on daily or ignored by teachers or taught things we don’t agree with just so we have a real
reason to teach them from home? No, but that’s how we’re made to feel.
The reason I chose to pull my two third-graders out of public school and never let my youngest step foot in a classroom was that I felt I was sending them off to a penitentiary each day.
We moved to Baltimore and found a place in what ended up being a pretty rough area. (Now I do a lot of research before I move anywhere!) I didn’t think much about it at the time though after growing up in various parts of Los Angeles and never having a bit of trouble. I loved the townhouse we lived in and the scenery of Baltimore was beautiful. It quickly became apparent though that, Dorothy wasn’t in Kansas any longer.
My children were picked on, ridiculed, and threatened daily. The classrooms were awful, with the obedient children being punished right along with the troublemakers. My kids would often go without lunch and there was never any free time on the playground because, Too many fights break out,
as I was told by one teacher. And these were third graders!
No matter how many times I went to the school to talk with the principal and teachers I’d just hear the same excuses repeatedly. When one of my daughters had a knife pulled on her just because she had blonde hair, they never went back to public school again.
My story might sound extreme, but it’s real nonetheless. Top that all off with my girls learning things they had taken when in first grade while living in California, and I knew I had done the right thing by pulling them out of public