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s Large Family Homeschool Life – Week 22 of 2021 The Renaissance, the library, and an outing that didn’t go as planned (including hitting a deer) made this week rather exciting! Read all of the Large Family Homeschool Life posts HERE >> MONDAY It’s a rainy day here. Yesterday, we saw a bobcat by the creek – not expecting that today with all the rain. I had peanut butter and banana toast and coffee for breakfast. I use a caramel protein shake in my coffee as creamer – so good! After breakfast, I prepped for school this week. We are starting...

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Does the word schedule make you break out in hives? Do you picture yourself harried and deflated at the end of a day on a homeschool daily schedule? Maybe for you, like me, that’s a vivid memory, not a theoretical picture.

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Does the word schedule make you break out in hives? Do you picture yourself harried and deflated at the end of a day on a homeschool daily schedule? Maybe for you, like me, that’s a vivid memory, not a theoretical picture.

Schedules get a negative reaction in the homeschool world, and I totally get why. I mean, can I schedule diaper blowouts and my doorbell ringing and the toddler pulling an open bag of powdered sugar onto herself? Where does that go in the schedule? One thing we learn as soon as we try to live by a written schedule is that we are not actually in control. Guess what? That’s a good thing. If you hate the thought of schedules, if you’ve tried a homeschool daily schedule and it didn’t work, I have three secrets that I hope will cause...

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The 2020 Pandemic Journal for Kids is a powerful tool in helping your child focus on the positive, express their feelings in a healthy way, shift their thinking to gratitude and hopefulness, and create a memorable time capsule keepsake

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The 2020 Pandemic Journal for Kids is a powerful tool in helping your child focus on the positive, express their feelings in a healthy way, shift their thinking to gratitude and hopefulness, and create a memorable time capsule keepsake

As much as we try to shelter our child from the stress of what’s happening in the world right now, we can’t shield them from it all. Their reality has been altered. School closures, not being able to hug grandparents or visit friends, not going out to the playground, movies, or even the store, and maybe hearing the hushed whispers of adults are just a few of the changes your child may be facing.  Even though we are doing our best as parents to make things as normal as possible for them, chances are, they still carry with them some concern....

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