Some of my favorite parts of homeschooling are the fun, yet educational things we get to experience. A couple of weeks ago, a fellow homeschooling mom organized a field trip to see the raptors at our nearest state park. They have a rehabilitation center there and have some birds that can never be released into […]
All of the children know how to knit (including the boys). They mostly knit washcloths that they sell with our soap. It’s great because they can take their knitting with them in the car or to a meeting we need to attend. It gives them something to do with their hands. Knitting also teaches eye-hand […]
Jim spends a lot of his time supplying Goat Milk Stuff with what it needs to keep growing. I love it when he is able to use the business as a way to teach the children new skills. We don’t use wi-fi in the soap room or in our house. As a result, we use […]
Now that the construction is finished at our new farm, Jim and I have a lot of our time freed up. We’ve been talking about where to spend some of that time when it comes to Goat Milk Stuff and in what direction we want to take the business. More wholesale? More internet? More agri-tourism? Since we’re focusing […]
I have a lot of goals when it comes to my children and their homeschool education. One of my goals is that they learn how to be great communicators. In most conventional public school educations, communication is focused on the ability to write “papers”. Whether these papers are book reports or term papers, the […]
One of the most common homeschool questions that I’m asked is, “What curriculum do you use?” To be perfectly honest, I hate this question. I think too many homeschooling parents think that there is a “magic” curriculum out there that will make homeschooling perfect. Too much homeschooling energy is wasted on choosing curriculum, discussing curriculum, […]
One of my main goals when it comes to our homeschool is to give the children lots of opportunities to be creative. I believe that strengthening their creativity skills will pay dividends when they are older because creative people are better problem solvers in my opinion. And to me, that’s a large part of life […]
We regularly receive supplies deliveries that contain a lot of packing materials such as bubble wrap, peanuts, foam, and paper. Most of those packing supplies we reuse to ship out our soap orders. But for some reason, one day Emery decided to use some of the foam paper we received to make Indigo a complete […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/goatmilkstuff/BMSG032.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:40 — 24.5MB)Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 032. This is the final episode in the homeschooling series. Whether or not you are a homeschooling parent, I hope that it provides you with some encouragement. You can engage your children and help them to learn and to […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/goatmilkstuff/BMSG031.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:49 — 24.6MB)Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 031. Our homeschooling series continues as we answer more homeschooling questions such as “How do I homeschool boys?” and “What about curriculum?” There are many different ways to homeschool. This series gives you an idea of not only how […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/goatmilkstuff/BMSG030.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 37:57 — 34.8MB)Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 030. Homeschooling at the Jonas house takes place all the time. Somebody is always learning something and the older children often help the younger children. This is part two in our homeschooling series. Jim and I finish our initial […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/goatmilkstuff/BMSG029.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:57 — 28.4MB)Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 029. The Jonas children have been homeschooled their entire lives. We start homeschooling them when they are babies because we consider all of life to be a part of their homeschool education. Jim and I sat down and talked […]
Jim recently shared with me a quote from Albert Einstein who once said, “Creativity is the residue of wasted time.” What a brilliant way to put it! I have always felt that lots and lots of free time is essential. I believe it so much that we’ve made it foundational to how we homeschool and […]
I previously mentioned that my children all need to have a successful website or blog before I allow them to graduate our homeschool. The first step was to purchase their domain names. Then we needed to choose a company to use for the domain hosting. When you build a website, you need to have […]
As part of our homeschooling curriculum, my children each need to start and maintain their own website before they graduate. In order to have a website, the first thing you need is a domain name. Do you own any domain names? I’m a little bit of a domain name junkie. Actually, I don’t own that […]