Plan to Live Life on Purpose
Create a mission statement, goals, and a plan to help you make time for things that matter.
Learning Lifestyle / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published December 2, 2010 · Last modified February 5, 2020
Create a mission statement, goals, and a plan to help you make time for things that matter.
Home School / Language Arts and Literature
by Janice Campbell · Published November 18, 2010 · Last modified August 31, 2015
Reading is the most important academic skill we teach our students. Students must learn to read well before they can read to learn, so it’s important to create a nourishing home environment where books are read and enjoyed, ideas are discussed, and written and spoken communication is a natural part of everyday life. If you’ve created that strong foundation and your child still struggles with learning to read, there’s usually a discoverable cause. In The Struggling Reader system, the Eckenwilers have provided the tools for diagnosis, and the means for teaching what is needed.
Learning Lifestyle / Planning and Time Management
by Janice Campbell · Published November 16, 2010 · Last modified October 8, 2019
Making time for significance I had the opportunity to speak on “Making Time for Things that Matter” at the Ultimate Homeschool Expo last week, and I’ve also been reading a book called Eternal Impact: Investing in the Lives of Others...
Home School / Inspiration and encouragement
by Janice Campbell · Published September 21, 2010 · Last modified August 31, 2015
We live in a society that worships “average” and fears anything different, but we can teach our children to appreciate the infinite variety in creation, and to be compassionate to those who have difficulties. Here’s one small place to start....
Home School / Inspiration and encouragement / Learning Lifestyle
by Janice Campbell · Published July 14, 2010 · Last modified August 20, 2019
If you can align your expectations with reality, make adjustments that keep you sane, and focus on priorities and essentials, you’ll be able to homeschool while you’re a caregiver.
Home School / Inspiration and encouragement / Learning Lifestyle
by Janice Campbell · Published July 6, 2010 · Last modified August 20, 2019
Caregivers face daily challenges, but friends who are understanding and kind can make the path easier.
Books and Reading / Home School / Inspiration and encouragement / Learning Lifestyle / Organization
by Janice Campbell · Published June 22, 2010 · Last modified August 31, 2015
The Beach Reading Edition of Carnival of Homeschooling is up, and there are great posts on why to homeschool through high school, how to motivate your children, how to teach boys, and much, much more. Enjoy!
Choosing curriculum can be a challenge. Here are three things to think about to make it easier!
Here’s our annual conference newsletter handout with booklists and articles. We’d rather be sharing it in person, but for now, you can download the Everyday Educator here.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1547-1616), Spanish novelist (Don Quixote and others), playwright, and poet was born at Alcalá de Henares in 1547. The attempts of biographers to provide him with an illustrious genealogy are...
In this brief article, scholar, editor, and translator Luis Sundkvist explores the life of noted Russian author Ivan Turgenev and considers ways in which his life and work intersected with the Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Biography...
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. She won several awards for her poetry in her lifetime, and her poems are frequently anthologized. Poetry (1919) by Marianne...
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is seen as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. His works include several collections of poetry, one novel, and...
Leo Tolstoy (or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), 1828-1910, was a Russian novelist and social reformer, born on the 9th of September (August 28) 1828, in the home of his fathers – Yasnaya Polyana, near Toula...
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