After honoring God, our goal here at Home Educating Family is to bring you relevant information, inspirational articles, and encouragement to continue on your homeschooling journey. Today I thought I’d open up the floor, so to speak. What kind of posts would you like to see here on the blog? Are there certain items you [...]

Our Reviews Director raves about Slickepott All Natural Fudge Sauce. On, and on, and ON! Between you and me, sometimes I wondered if she was exaggerating a bit. Then I got to try some. She was not exaggerating! This stuff is, well, chocolate to soothe the weary soul! Ian, homeschool grad and owner of Slickepott, [...]

Homeschool burnout. From the impeccable, holy homeschool mom of twelve, to the frazzled, unorganized homeschool mom of one, we all experience it. Usually around February it’s a safe bet you will start to nudge your offspring towards the magic yellow school bus with a Machiavellian gleam in your tired eyes. You imagine leaving a trail [...]

When I asked a couple months ago what you wanted to learn about, one of the requests was “the gut-brain connection in laymen’s terms.” Today we are blessed to have Lisa Lewis, a prominent speaker and well-known author on special diets for kids. She is an expert in making technical medical terms easier to understand. [...]

Today I decided to use a money-saving/meal-planning theme. Tabitha over at Meet Penny inspired this. She shared how she cooked or prepped/froze all her meat on one day for an entire week. There are some great ideas at her post! Danielle at Domestic Serenity (and yes, her blog really is peaceful!) has some great ideas for freezer [...]

Because of my husband’s many hours at work, I sometimes feel like a single parent, but I am not one in reality. I often sit in admiration of single parents. Today, as we continue our Working Homeschool Moms series, we get to hear from Regina, who is not only a working homeschool mom, but also [...]

Recently, Rebecca Keliher, our founder and CEO, received some email from a customer that brought up some interesting points. Here’s what the customer had to say after meeting Rebecca at a convention and hearing her workshop:  I wanted to let you know how honored I was that you took time to talk with me at conference. [...]

“So how’s the empty nest?” This is a question I often hear friends ask me with my daughter living in another state now and my son moving off to college. I have to say, kind of nice. It’s quiet and I can actually think! I don’t have scads of meals to prepare or other’s schedules [...]

A couple years ago, the flood waters had risen and ravaged our beautiful city. We will never look at rain the same way. The historic Nashville Floodwas of epic proportions, and it changed the way we think, live, and perceive the community around us. As we received so much help from our community and neighboring states, we [...]

Dearly beloved, we are gathered together in the family bed. An elbow in the eyeball. Knee to the groin. Sprawling horizontally. Akimbo appendages. How did his feet end up on the pillow? Grounds for annulment of the privilege? What began as sweet family bonding can turn into a decree of divisive dreams, a writ of [...]

What does a special needs homeschooler do when their teen turns 18? or 21? What does a teen need to know to get a diploma? Who gives my teen a diploma? My teen is chronologically of age but not in ability, are there options for us? What do I do now that we have reached [...]

It’s May. Some homeschoolers are finishing up their school years already. Some of you have already been planning next year for a while, and others are flat on the floor, thinking, “NEXT YEAR?! How do I finish this year?” Hopefully these links will encourage you as you start think about choosing curriculum! One of our contributors, [...]

Homeschooling can be a juggling act without working from home, however add in working from home and you likely have a three ring circus. Ring #1 Homeschool Ring #2 Keeping the Home and Family Ring #3 Working from Home Add to the above rings childcare and keeping Christ at the center and,well, even a part-time [...]

Last weekend I had the privilege of representing Home Educating Family at the 2:1 Conference, a conference for Christian Homeschool Bloggers. You’ll be able to read about it more in a future issue of our magazine later in the year, but I wanted to share a few things I learned. I also wanted to invite [...]

It has always been our family’s dream to travel the country in an RV while turning the whole trip into a giant schoolroom. The lessons to be learned are enormous on the road. There is so much to be gained by roadschooling that simply can’t be learned in the confines of the home. It is [...]

This week, there is no contest, no comments to leave, no hoping you win, because EVERYONE wins this week! Creation Illustrated has offered our readers a free trial issue of their magazine. Not familiar with it? Read on! Creation Illustrated has been published Quarterly for 19 years as the leading, Bible-based nature journal for homeschoolers. [...]

Spring is in the air! And for a homeschooling mom (or maybe just this one!), with spring comes thoughts of…tiredness…feeling behind…wishing to be finished with school, already! I’m not sure what it is about spring—maybe it’s realizing that we’re eight months into the nine-month school year, and only about half-way finished with any of our [...]

So my youngest is at that age now where I start getting evil looks from other mommies in the park. I know why they’re annoyed with me and my frightful parenting ways, but let me take a moment to explain why I do what I do: I am a very over protective mom, but like [...]

Most young children love animals- at least in songs and books- if not within touching distance. A toddler’s first words may be the names of animals or the sounds they make. This love of animals has made the field of equine- assisted therapies both an exciting and growing specialty area. I am an occupational therapist [...]

This weekend Linda Difino (the magic behind our online convention) and I are attending the 2:1 Conference. I thought it might be nice to visit some of the other vendors that will be there with us. You can learn something new about Marie Rippel from All About Learning Press, as well as how pronunciation helps [...]