{"id":4277,"date":"2015-08-24T14:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2015-08-24T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:14:16","slug":"homeschool-mondays-some-tips-from-the-veterans-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2015\/08\/homeschool-mondays-some-tips-from-the-veterans-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool Mondays – Some Tips From The Veterans (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I asked a bunch of my long-time homeschooling friends (10 years or more) what tips and tricks they\u2019d picked up along the way, and I\u2019ll be sharing them with you over the next few Mondays. I hope you enjoy seeing what they all had to say, and maybe find things to make it go a little more smoothly.<\/p>\n

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Happy New School Year!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
Let\u2019s just dive right into the good stuff, shall we?<\/p>\n
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Ask the veteran homeschool moms for help and playdates. I know that we may look old(er) to you, and not at all like the friends you\u2019re used to hanging out with, but we know stuff. A lot of stuff. We\u2019ve been around this block and run a marathon with it. Many of us have kids who\u2019ve already graduated and gone off to college, and still have preschoolers at home. We may not look like your usual friends, but our kids are nice and would like to play with yours; and while they do, we can show you how to whip through lesson planning like nobody\u2019s business.<\/li>\n
Ask the new moms for help and playdates. Look at those cute new homeschooling moms with their youthful exuberance, cute babies, and ambitious planning \u2013 remember when that was us? It\u2019s easy for homeschooling moms to split into \u201cMommy Playgroups\u201d by age of mom or her eldest child. That\u2019s just stupid. We\u00a0 can learn so much from these new moms who have the energy to research all the latest everything, the desire to fingerpaint, and the creativity to make it all happen. We can all use a shake-up every now and again, it keeps us young and fresh. Invite the new moms over and listen to all they\u2019ve learned. Put aside your experience and hear them out, you might find a revolutionary way to do things right with the fifth child that you\u2019ll wish you\u2019d known with the first.<\/li>\n
Get the workbooks spiral bound! Seriously. Do it now. Thank me later. It\u2019s cheap (around $2.50\/book) and lets the books lay flat for easy writing or copying. My favorite part is no more whining about \u201cwriting on the hump.\u201d<\/li>\n
Write in the workbooks. As long as they\u2019re under $20 for the book, it doesn\u2019t make sense economically or frustration-ally to make copies. You\u2019ll spend way more than the price of the book in paper, ink, and time. The only caveat to this is if the book is out of print and you LOVE<\/em> it, then guard that sucker with your life and make a safety back-up copy right now!<\/li>\n
August\/September are always ridiculously more expensive than you\u2019ll plan on them being. Between last minute book buys, co-op fees, registration fees for scouts and sports; it seems like everyone wants money at the beginning of the year. If you can\u2019t cough it all up at once, go talk to the folks in charge. It\u2019s very rare that I\u2019ve run into a director of whatever who didn\u2019t understand tight budgets and give me a grace period. Take it and then make sure to say thank you.<\/li>\n
You can\u2019t really do housework and homeschooling at the same time, or something will fall apart \u2013 usually the homeschooling. There\u2019s nothing like a laundry change to give a reluctant learner the time to slip away and get up to something. I know it\u2019s hard, especially for us multitaskers by nature, but you really do have to focus on the kids and nothing else.<\/li>\n
Which means you have to make a plan for when you\u2019re going to teach and when you\u2019re going to do house stuff. Having a plan in place means that things get done and you get to enjoy the time with your children without feeling frazzled and worn out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This is just the tip of the iceberg! Next week\u2019s post includes \u2013 the very best pencil sharpener that you have to buy, strategies for getting a reluctant teenager to actually do his work without a battle, and more!<\/p>\n
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