Choose the Mom Friendly Homeschool Method
Here are some tips on choosing the right homeschool method for your family, one that will allow your children to develop their imaginations and problem-solving skills but that is also mom-friendly!
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Here are some tips on choosing the right homeschool method for your family, one that will allow your children to develop their imaginations and problem-solving skills but that is also mom-friendly!
Worried About Finishing the School Year? The holidays are long gone, and your homeschool year may be drawing to a close in the next few weeks. Are you excited? Or are you tired or discouraged? Are you wondering if you’re jeopardizing your child’s future by not sending him or her to public or private school?…
Your family is simple – mom, dad, child. Homeschooling an only child has to be simple, right? You can get through all of the daily assignments without having to worry about teaching the other siblings or bouncing a baby in your lap. This isn’t quite the case. Instead, smaller families also face unique challenges when…
As we begin a new homeschool year (or continue the year for those who homeschool year-round), it can be tempting to feel like we need to be perfect. The truth is, though, that none of us is perfect! Our job as homeschool parents is to simply do the best we can with and for our…
We are obviously all about Hip Homeschool Moms here, but what about the Hip Homeschool Dads? As we plan and prepare for a new homeschool year, one of your family and homeschool goals for this new year might be having Dad more involved in homeschool lessons. We asked some homeschool moms to share how their…
I was recently thinking about our new homeschool year and making a mental list of the things I need to do to prepare for it. Then I began to think about the things that didn’t go very well last year and how I can help make this our best homeschooling year yet! I came up…
Being a mom is hard. But it’s also one of the most rewarding jobs in the world! Homeschooling moms invest so much time and energy into our kids! We make so many sacrifices and pour so much into our children. That’s why today we want to celebrate homeschool moms! We’re sharing an opportunity for homeschool…
Most people view homeschooling as a time of focusing on academics. For most homeschooling families, providing our kids with a well-rounded education is important. But did you know that homeschooling also inspires creativity in kids? It does! (Or at least it can.) In this article, I’ll talk about how and why homeschooling inspires creativity, and…
Should You Make New Year’s Resolutions? Should you make New Year’s resolutions? Believe it or not, this can be a hot topic! Many of us have strong feelings one way or the other about it. Some believe it’s extremely important to make them each year. After all, it’s hard to reach goals we haven’t set….
It’s that time of year. The holiday season. The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s are those which find most of us seeing all of those far-flung relatives that we visit only a few times each year. {Disclaimer: If you’re not familiar with my quirky sense of humor, read the first part of this article with…
3 Reasons Not to Do School in December Do you find homeschooling during December to be overwhelming? I’m Wendy, one of the owners of Hip Homeschool Moms. Every year around this time, I hear from lots of homeschooling moms who wonder if they should take off the entire month of December because of their busy…
Dear Homeschool Mom, We Need Each Other! I imagine, if we were in person and I was telling you this, I’d stand there in front of you, waving like Napoleon Dynamite, all “Hi, it’s me! I’m OK! But sometimes? I’m also kinda not!” And then I’d moonwalk out of there. Or maybe do a little snap-action,…