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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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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At some point or another, a lot of homeschooling families find that they will need to turn to the traditional school system. Whether there is a major life change like a move, divorce, job change, or medical issue, sometimes families find they need to turn to public school. Sometimes they also just decide that a …
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