How to Keep Toddlers Busy While Homeschooling This post is from contributor, Jacinda Vdb This post contains affiliate links for products we love! Our youngest children are a two and a half year-old boy and a nine month-old girl, which means a curious trouble maker chap with a keen sense for adventure, and a […]
How to Make Learning Fun When the Textbooks are Boring
This post is from contributor Jacinda Vandenberg (This post may contain affiliate links.) Many homeschool parents, myself included, often find themselves in a funk, comparing or mirroring their teaching style and their child’s learning habits to conventional methodology and cultural expectations. Most of us don’t want our home schools to be schools at home, yet […]
How to Teach History in Your Homeschool for Free
*This post was originally published on Apr 11, 2014. History is one of the easiest subjects to teach for free. We live in an age where information is readily available and costs nothing. All you need to know is where to get it and how to deliver it in a memorable way. Welcome to FHD’s […]
Following in Their Footsteps: Reflections of a Second Generation Homeschooler
This post is from contributor, Jacinda Vandenberg One of the greatest blessings I received from my parents was the gift of a home education. I never truly understood the kind of sacrifices they made (and to a large degree, still don’t) until we started down the same path and officially began homeschooling our oldest last […]
Who Can Homeschool?
This post contains affiliate links. This is a guest post from Jacinda of Growing Home. People of any ethnic group can homeschool. We happen to be Caucasian, but one of the best advocates for the modern homeschooling movement is Voddie Baucham, a Black father of nine. A person’s nationality or skin color makes no difference in how successful they can […]