It’s testing season. Even though most of my children are homeschooled, they still take the same statewide assessments that all Ohio childr...

So we were just talking about how to raise writers. Or more importantly how to not raise writers. I mentioned in this recent post t...

So this fall all three of my children have entered into the world of essay writing. You would think I’d be thrilled that their writing s...

As summer stretches out in front of us, I can already hear the whines of boredom coming from my children. Moan, groan and despair. I love t...

My dear friend Abby is doing a series on her blog this month about the choices parents face when considering their child's education. Fu...

Yesterday we talked a bit about teaching our kids (and ourselves) how to use a camera to express ourselves a bit better. Today we're goi...

So yesterday I talked about how I completely revolutionized the way I discipline my difficult child.  Now that I understand my son was actin...

We recently found ourselves with a free afternoon in which to make ourselves some self portraits. In the past we've made self portraits ...

So I recently picked up a drawing book titled " How to Draw Fantasy Castles ", thinking it would be good to help the kids work on ...

It's February and we're a little tired of being less than inspired by the dismal winter color palette outside our windows. But my ch...

They say there's a first time for everything. Which is particularly true if you've spent most of your life with a parent who didn...

A while back we had some fun melting crayons over the George Forman grille . I saw recently where someone had melted crayons with a hair dry...

This is my 9 year old. He's been studying architectural design this week. We found a fantastic book full of design projects for kids his...

As I am in the final stages of preparing to bring this little boy home, the finality of teaching ESL sets in. I've been doing a little r...

One of the fun things about homeschooling is that you can do wacky things, like paperless school . A full day of coursework without picking ...

The other day I read an article in a magazine about a typical day-in-the-life of a homeschooling family. While the article was rather thorou...

For a recent family movie night I picked up How To Train Your Dragon from our local library. Even though the girls poo-poo'd the idea of...

For Father's Day we teamed up with some friends from church and headed down to Ludwig Mill to take a ride on the canal boat. Since it wa...

Last week our dear friend Cathy invited us to go with her to the Henry Ford Museum , up near Detroit. It was the perfect little field trip f...

Perhaps you've eard of him? He's Alex's new best friend... Alex and I were recently introduced to the Percy Jackson series. Perc...