by Mel Smith | Mar 17, 2020 | Homeschooling
There’s a Facebook group that I joined today to help parents forced into homeschooling because of coronavirus concerns. Either their kids’ school has closed, or they’ve voluntarily taken their kids out of school because someone in the family is...
by Mel Smith | Mar 16, 2020 | Homeschooling
This is the first in a series of homeschool day-in-the-life type posts. I don’t know how many installments I’ll do. Maybe it’ll just be this one. Maybe I’ll do it for a week, or two, or several months. We’ll see. See, I know a lot of...
by Mel Smith | Jan 23, 2017 | General biz, Homeschooling
I’m a part of several Facebook groups for small biz owners. I’m noticing more and more are homeschooling! This is great, because I’m homeschooling my kids too. It’s good to be in contact with others who are doing homeschooling and home...
by Mel Smith | Dec 12, 2016 | General biz, Homeschooling, Systems
So I had a baby a month ago. Almost exactly, in fact – Micah will be one month old tomorrow. We are well and truly in the middle of the newborn period. I have two older boys as well, age 5 and 9 1/2. We homeschool. And I run my own business from home. That...
by Mel Smith | Aug 20, 2015 | General biz, Homeschooling
Most of you, I assume, take your kids to school in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon, and the hours in between are your working hours. My family is a little different. We’re homeschooling. Now, the reasons for that are many and varied, but the main...
by Mel Smith | Feb 2, 2015 | General biz, Homeschooling
Today was one of those days. You know the kind. When getting your seven year old to do anything feels like pulling teeth. And your three year old pushes your buttons all day long so that when he finally falls asleep for a nap at 6:30 pm, you don’t wake him...