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  • Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask First

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    If you have ever traveled on an airplane, or even watched a movie about air travel, then you have heard the pre-flight safety speech. After informing you how to buckle your seat belt and where the exit doors are, the flight attendant […]

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  • Rethinking Your Role: Headmaster, Not Teacher

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    There are a lot of reasons why homeschooling can leave you feeling overwhelmed. But the prime reason tends to be trying to do everything rather than delegating. Whether it’s trying to run a side hustle alongside your child’s classes, teaching children of […]

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  • The Peril of “Improving Books”

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    Saturday at our home has a comfortable routine. Coffee is brewed. Someone fixes breakfast and someone else grabs the Wall Street Journal off the lawn. While we coffee up and feed before heading off to tae kwon do, we pull out the […]

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  • Reading With Your Ears

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    Last weekend we were out of town on a last-minute road trip. Each direction was nearly eight hours of drive time, with another few hours baked in for rest stops, meals, and attending an online class somewhere with a stable internet connection. […]

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  • Overwhelmed? Here’s 3 Reasons Why

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    Reviewing last week’s livestream, my husband started flooding me with text messages: “Need to figure out a better camera angle.” “Mugs banging on desk very annoying.” “Lighting much better.” Most of them were technical details, as befits a pair of former theatrical […]

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  • The Secret to More Engaged Learning

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    Late last week, my 14-year-old was struggling with a geography assignment. From my perspective, it was a fairly simple task. Read the textbook, review the questions in the workbook, pick the appropriate sentence to pluck from the text and enter verbatim, and […]

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  • Should A Home Classroom “Look Like School”?

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    Earlier this week, my sister-in-law posted a photo of her family taking off for a day of skiing. She called it “playing hooky” and “on-location PE.” I respectfully suggest that only the second is correct. One of the joys of at-home schooling […]

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