Are Your Ready For 2015? The Key to Setting Goals is to Start Now!
So it’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for not New Year’s Resolutions, but for setting goals. The difference between New Year’s Resolutions and setting goals is that the latter can actually...
View ArticleTeach Like Jesus And Paul: 10 Teaching Tips to Motivate and Inspire
I’ve been teaching for almost 10 years now and I think I can fairly say that I’m finally getting the hang of it. When I first started teaching, I only had one simple concept to go off of: “What kind...
View Article6 Reasons To Get Your FAFSA in Now!
Congratulations! You finished your college applications, wrote your essays, took the ACT or SAT, and now you are eagerly awaiting acceptance letters. Or, you already got an acceptance and are now...
View ArticleDo You Make These 9 Study Mistakes?
Homeschool, public school, or private school, it doesn’t matter where you are: You need to study, and you may be making mistakes. The ongoing battle for me as a teacher with students of all kinds...
View ArticleHow To Plan Your College Visit
It’s April, which means (hopefully) that all the college and financial aid applications are done, and you may have already started to receive acceptance letters from the schools you applied to. If you...
View Article25 College Survival Tips I Wish I Had BEFORE I Went to College
To all your newly minted homeschool graduates out there, I’m excited to offer my congratulations as you complete high school. For many of you, this brings you years of homeschooling to a close, and it...
View ArticleMinimalist Homeschooling and Planning High School
The real minimalist homeschooling approach would probably be to unschool, but that’s not what I’m advocating here. I confess that I’m not an expert at unschooling, but based on a description of it,...
View ArticleHow to Research Colleges Without Getting Overwhelmed
You’re a homeschooling parent who has to juggle curriculum, schedules, multiple students, and the never ending stream of day to day household tasks. Your high school student is nearing graduation and...
View ArticleHow to Prepare Your Homeschooler For College Admissions
If you’re like most parents, the thought of preparing your homeschooler for college admissions is overwhelming. If we’re being honest, wasn’t this the proverbial elephant in the room? That gnawing...
View Article5 Surprising Ways Homeschooling Prepared Me for College (Plus 5 Ways it Didn’t)
If you’re a homeschooling parent, you will eventually face the tough decision (if you haven’t already) on whether to keep homeschooling your child all the way through high school. Much fear and...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
I know it’s a big day and we’re unlikely to be checking blogs at the moment, but I truly am appreciative of you, my readers, and I wanted to be sure to wish you a “Merry Christmas” on this fine The...
View ArticleEnd of Year Review: What Worked (And What Didn’t) in 2015
We’re getting near the end of 2015, which means holiday fun and craziness, the end of one semester and planning for next. In the scrum of homeschooling life it can be easy to ignore an end of year...
View ArticleThe Ultimate List of College Financial Aid Resources
Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links, I’ll receive a small commission that will allow me to keep this site going. Thanks for the support! You...
View ArticleHow College Changes Your Student (And How That Can Be a Good Thing)
Something was off in the summer of 2004. Why did the house I grew up in feel so small? Why did I feel more awkward talking to my family than my friends at church? How could I feel alone when The...
View Article24 College Visit Questions You Must Ask When You’re On Campus
I don’t think the idea of going to college became a real possibility for my parents and I until we visited the campus of Biola University. Up to that point, the idea of transferring to a four year...
View ArticleMy Homeschooling Story – Katie Morton and The Edge of Redemption
Last year, my post on my homeschooling story proved to be really popular with all of you. So this fall I decided to broaden the story by inviting other homeschooling alumni to share their stories...
View Article5 Surprising Ways Homeschooling Prepared Me for College (Plus 5 Ways it Didn’t)
If you’re a homeschooling parent, you will eventually face the tough decision (if you haven’t already) on whether or not to keep homeschooling your child all the way through high school. Often, much...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
I know it’s a big day and we’re unlikely to be checking blogs at the moment, but I truly am appreciative of you, my readers, and I wanted to be sure to wish you a “Merry Christmas” on this fine The...
View ArticleEnd of Year Review: What Worked (And What Didn’t) in 2015
We’re getting near the end of 2015, which means holiday fun and craziness, the end of one semester and planning for next. In the scrum of homeschooling life it can be easy to ignore an end of year...
View ArticleThe Ultimate List of College Financial Aid Resources
Note: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links, I’ll receive a small commission that will allow me to keep this site going. Thanks for the support! If...
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