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.wp-block-image img {max-width: 100%;} img {height: auto;} Vlogmas 2022 Part 4! is a post from Confessions of a Homeschooler. If you’ve enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Erica on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest! Also be sure to stop by her Community to join the discussion or her Store to see her latest items! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!  VLOGMAS 2022 Part 4 is live!! If you’re new to our site, vlogmas is where we upload holiday vlogs sharing all of our fun Christmas content for the month of December! So grab a cup of...

Why doesn’t anyone care about the expanded child tax credit? A $100 billion policy—effective, important, elegantly designed, competently managed, and noncontroversial—is gone, at least for now. And nobody, save for a few politicians and wonks, seems to have noticed or to care.  [Annie Lowrey: Cash for kids comes to the United States]The expanded child tax credit (CTC) provided no-strings-attached cash payments to 39 million families in 2021 and 2022, lifting millions of kids over the poverty line. But Democrats have failed to get a renewal of the program into the $1.7 trillion spending bill making its way through Congress, just as...

.wp-block-image img {max-width: 100%;} img {height: auto;} Vlogmas 2022 Part 3! is a post from Confessions of a Homeschooler. If you’ve enjoyed this post, be sure to follow Erica on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest! Also be sure to stop by her Community to join the discussion or her Store to see her latest items! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!  VLOGMAS 2022 Part 3 is live!! If you’re new to our site, vlogmas is where we upload daily vlogs sharing all of our fun holiday content for the month of December! So grab a cup of...

The scariest article I read in all my research about homeschooling is about how far parents in Silicon Valley are going to keep their kids off of phones. A Dark Consensus about Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley. The article was from 2018. It was clear to me then that the parents in Silicon Valley knew more than everyone else knew about phones. It was also clear to me that it costs a lot of money to keep kids off phones. Because phones are a sanity tool for parents. So yeah, the phones are a drug. Of course, that’s...

This post contains affiliate links - using affiliate links from Homeschool Coffee Break helps fuel this blog.  For the final time in 2022, it's time to share Something Loved, Something Gleaned, Something Braved (or Saved) and Something Achieved. This delightful monthly link-up has been so much fun for me and I'm grateful for the connections made through it. Something Loved As I've shared before, this move has been hard. Other than our son and his family, we don't know anyone where we live now, and we are still searching for a church to call home. But even so, I must say that I'm...