Continue To Cultivate Your Own Passions This post contains affiliate links. Welcome to the fourth and final installment of my series on avoiding burnout as a homeschooling parent! I hope this has been a helpful series for you as you think through your upcoming school year plans and take some time to recharge and regroup …
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Maintain Good Boundaries This post contains affiliate links. Welcome back to my four part series on avoiding burnout as a homeschooling parent! Today, we're going to dig in a bit on establishing and maintaining good boundaries. This is perhaps the most important part of avoiding burnout and practicing self care, but I also think the …
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Build A Community Welcome to the second installment of my four part series dedicated to avoiding burnout as a homeschool parent! As I mentioned in the last post, burnout can be sneaky and show up in various ways that can make us think the only choice we have is to throw in the towel. But …
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This post contains affiliate links in the form of recommended books. “Put on your own oxygen mask first.” “If mama’s not happy, nobody’s happy.” “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” We have so many phrases in our lexicon that remind us as care providers to take care of our own needs first so that …
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When you’re new to homeschooling, some of the terminology you read online can be a tad confusing. I’ve already covered what another occasionally cumbersome term - an Umbrella program - is in my post on the three legal ways to homeschool in Tennessee. So today, let’s focus a bit on what it means for an …
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My daughter and I had the opportunity to visit The Frist Art Museum last Friday during the opening week of their new Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature exhibit. My goodness, what a lovely time! We met up with a fellow homeschooling family and enjoyed wandering through the positively stunning exhibits downstairs, which have since moved …
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Friends! I had the opportunity to sit down with Danielle Ledbetter from WSMV this past week to discuss homeschooling in Nashville. She wanted to know specifically about building community and filling our social needs as we embark on such a different lifestyle. Check it out for yourself! If that video didn't play for you, try …
What do you think of when you picture a library? Perhaps a quiet space full of generous shelves of books, or a place to get help in finding answers to your questions. And yes, these are certainly fundamental things that you can generally count on in a library. But what if a library also made …
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There are so many ways to homeschool, with each specific variant as unique as the individual families who choose to follow them. And this is the beautiful thing about homeschooling! You get to tailor your child’s educational journey to one that will best fit the specific needs of your family. Maybe you’re a family who …
Today I’d like to dig in on the second installment of my two part series on transitions between home and school. Before I go much further, however, I want to acknowledge that this series is hitting right at a time when our city is grappling with a devastating tragedy in the form of the Covenant …
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