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Ode to a December Homeschool Day ~ Written by Jamie C. Martin of Simple Homeschool and Introverted Moms Jonathan‘s in the kitchen, whipping up tonight‘s subscription box dinner. He sings a Christmas song as he creates spicy chicken and rice bowls, his slippers shuffling back-and-forth on the tile floor. I sit in front of the woodstove with my journal in hand, attempting to listen to a Christmas piano playlist. His singing keeps interrupting my tunes, so I press “pause” and smile as I listen to him instead. Upstairs Trishna rests in bed with Covid, poor thing – thankfully a mild...

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Holiday Social Skills for Teens: Special Replay. Holiday Social Skills for Teens Holidays bring church and homeschool parties, family get-togethers. Teens often feel awkward at these events. They are too young to be regarded as the “little kids” and not quite old enough to be considered “adults”. How does a teen handle being a teen at holiday events? Sabrina, Vicki and Kym are sharing social skills tips for building for confidence and poise during the holidays (and afterwards)! Not only that, as teens learn and practice holiday social skills, they can count some hours...

 Song: FF 6 Prelude(Prelude because this is just the beginning of Alex's magical journey in life).Alex officially graduated from UC Berkeleyon December 17th 2022.First a little background...Alex had first entered university just after the 8th grade...(although he could have gone in the 6th grade as his official SAT at that time was hundreds of points higher than the average prospective studententering the University of Nevada, Reno).However, not only did we think he, as an elementary school age student...to be too young at that time...but Alex wanted to go to a middle school so he could participate in Mathcounts.  We had been homeschooling...

It is not December if our children do not have a violin recital. We have been doing this for nine years and it does not get old. Let me emphasize something: our children are not prodigies and it is a struggle to get them to practice more than 20 minutes a day. Our son playing at the recital Somebody once told me that violin lessons (or any music lessons for that matter) are about much more than the violin. Here are some lessons children learn while practicing an instrument: perseverance overcoming laziness conquering procrastination scheduling goal-setting delayed gratification self-motivation doing...