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Creating a New Holiday Tradition

I’ve always been the traditional kind of girl when it came to holidays. I like my turkey on Christmas and my ham on Easter. July 4th always meant barbeque. As I have gotten older, I have found that some traditions are worth changing. I always thought that having a little one in the house would make the holidays more festive and don’t get me wrong it does but I have also found that when you have kids holidays can sometimes mean more work and less time to enjoy the day. So this past Labor Day I decided to start my … Continue reading →

Joining a Community Board

I’ve written before about how volunteering can help you in your home business, but I wanted to talk about how serving on boards of directors, specifically, can be a boost to your home business. Joining and serving on a community board can give you a way to do volunteer work and give back to the community, as well as the opportunity to make important contacts, network, and learn new business skills. Serving on a board of directors for a nonprofit organization, church, project, or event means making a commitment. For some, this time and energy commitment can be too much, … Continue reading →

Start A Family Tradition: Community Service

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I have talked about family traditions before. Here’s a different kind of family tradition, one where your family gives back to the community. I have also talked about the benefits of volunteering, another great way to get your kids involved in the community. Why not start a family tradition of community service? If you look around your community, I am sure you will find things that need to be done and can be done without a lot of expense. For instance, something as simple as picking up debris in your neighborhood or cleaning up a local park can be done … Continue reading →

2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

Something To Think About

Almost as interesting as the array of home – based businesses out there are the stories behind them. Each business, even the home – based opportunities like Amway and Mary Kay that people buy into as a turnkey operation, was started by someone. Lately, I have been doing some thinking about this and I realized that I know far more home – based professionals than I thought. In my own home, there are two of us. Me with my freelance writing business and tiny little private law practice and my husband with an independent venture of his own as well … Continue reading →

The Provider / Supplying Personality Type

The “Provider / Supplying” Personality type, or the ESFJ personality type, describes a person who is an Extrovert (E), who perceives the world through Sensing (S), who relies on their Feelings (F) about the people and circumstances involved in a given situation as a basis for decision making, and who views the world from the vantage point of Judgement (J). If you are an extrovert, you enjoy interacting with the outside world around you, as well as with the people in it. You thrive from this interaction, and very much prefer it to being alone with your thoughts. You like … Continue reading →

Interview with a Homeschooled Author: Patrick O’Keefe

Ninety-nine percent of people who have started online communities jumped right in with both feet and they use existing programs or networks to get started. Many have a degree of success, at least for a while, but to be truly successful you need to create your community from the floor up with careful planning and preparation. This book written by former homeschooler and founder of the IFroggy network seems to be created for his competition. As a person who runs women’s networking group and also writes for a families website, among other online endeavors, this book has taught me enough … Continue reading →

Third Grade Social Studies Curriculum Part 1

As a Homeschooler, you can use these history topics to teach your child using the unit study approach. You are also free to Use a classical approach where you teach your child a new time period (chronologically) each year. If you started with the Ancient Civilizations in the first grade, you would study the Baroque period in the third grade. The following curriculum guide is courtesy of the World book Encyclopedia Website. I am adding suggestions for books and websites that will help you teach these lessons. Holidays and folk customs: Have Your Homeschooler Read Books about Different Holidays Throughout … Continue reading →

Distance Learning Homeschool Programs Mo-No

In my post on hybrid homeschooling, I talked about combining homeschooling with distance learning or local classes. Here continues the list of Distance Learning Programs you can use. Moore Foundation This is a project-based program with and unschooling bent. As I mentioned in my article about the recently deceased Dr. Moore, The Moore Academy is based on the Moore formula that stresses the importance of a project based education, apprenticeship and service. Families are charged for things like registration ($165.00), curriculum set ups, monthly overviews, evaluations, and consultations as needed. My Learning Partners This program promises to assist parents into … Continue reading →

Teaching Our Kids About Sharing the Gift of Time

We’ve talked about volunteering here in our “Parents” blog before, but I wanted to write a little about the gift of time—not necessarily the work and effort of community service, but taking the time to be with other people and share ourselves and our company. I think it can be a tough value to convey to our children in such a hustle, bustle world and yet, it is definitely something that our society seems to be lacking more and more. When I was a girl, I was lucky and blessed enough to grow up surrounded by extended family. BUT, that … Continue reading →