Tuesday we discovered that we really didn’t understand what “breaking the sound barrier” practically means. When two F-15 fighter jets broke the sound barrier (responding to an attempted intercept of an aircraft which had invaded the Temporary Flight Restriction area imposed for President Obama’s visit to Seattle) and triggered sonic booms which were heard throughout [...]

When a friend is injured, a new baby arrives or a family member is sick, delivered meals can be such a help. But scheduling this help is often more than an already busy homeschooling mom wants to take on, that is where Take Them A Meal Comes in! When a friend recently broke her leg [...]

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Timberdoodle has often heard the question, “how do you schedule homeschooling?” and while many families do it differently we thought we would share what worked well for our family. Our philosophy has been that the sooner a child can learn how to learn the easier homeschooling becomes. So in our family growing up, as soon [...]

1) Keep it fun! Your goal is productive learning and that can be accomplished through many fun methods. But if your child is not easily making the transition into being required to accomplish something, don’t hesitate to bring out some motivators. A couple of ideas we’ve used are: A) Make a chore board of all [...]

Here is a great post (and comments) by blogger MckMama called, Activities To The 4th Degree. If you have little ones in your family, you must surely like the rest of us be looking for creative and educational ways to keep them busy and yourself peaceful. Check out MckMama’s ideas and take a look in [...]

Here is another relevant example, from the Fallacy Detective authors, of the Avoiding the Question fallacy. Great refresher for your students, follow this link and watch the examples with your children and help them decipher where the fallacies occur and how these fallacies impact the decisions that we make and our culture.

Originally published in Timberdoodle’s 1990-1991 catalog Don’t you just love toddlers? They are so enthusiastic, loving, curious, confident, and innocent. However, to a home-educating mom, they are also exhausting, impatient, loud, and unpredictable. But how can we incorporate these tornadoes in with the older children in our education program without making them the center of [...]

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