Starting home education can seem like an overwhelming task. There is no one place to go to learn how to start, until now. — Home Education is all so new and different from simply going to the school and signing up — curriculum choices, connecting with other home ed families, new terminology, and what is the law anyway? I know how you feel. In fact, every family who bases their children’s education from home…

Motherhood is thriving in the moment. Motherhood is one part of the whole that makes all of who I am. — Being a mother to my daughters is my career. It is the most important thing that I am doing until they are all launched. It is my duty and responsibility to raise my own children and not put them into an institution for most of the day. So I am…

“The human being is born with an inclination toward virtue.” — Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 2.7.1–2 It is in our nature to connect with each other emotionally and physically. We are born this way. Our species has survived countless natural and human-made disasters for millennia by turning toward each other, caring…

Getting around without owning a car. — A few months ago, I ended my marriage by moving out of the family home. This was a complete starting over at zero for me in that I had been the parent at home raising our daughter, facilitating and overseeing her homeschooling, and doing all the rest that goes along…

The 10-piece wardrobe didn’t work for me so I’m doing it my way, 2 at a time. About ten years ago, I watched the 10 Piece Wardrobe TED talk and was inspired. I thought, “This I can do.” And I did. For a while. But there were always extra pieces…

If going to bed at 9 PM is the desired outcome, build back from that rather than starting at some random time and going forward. — “You need to string together enough successful attempts until the behavior is firmly embedded in your mind and you cross the Habit Line.” — Atomic Habits, James Clear When I read this line a couple of days ago, my mind immediately jumped to the new bedtime routine I’m trying to…

These are three TED talks about education that helped shape my own decision to homeschool. — One day, I became curious about something completely unknown to me — homeschooling children. I knew nothing about homeschooling and didn’t know anyone who homeschools their children. How do I learn about homeschooling? I turned to the two places where I expected to find people who homeschool (Facebook groups) and…

How did we end up with 20(!) mykis? — As we walked up to the train station, I prompted my then 7 or 8 or 9 yo daughter to get out her myki and was faced with a deer-in-headlights look that clearly said, “I don’t have it.” If we walked home to get the myki, we had to take…

We can treat online friends the same way we treat in-real-life friends and shine a light into the darkness. — Child-rearing now is 1000x harder now than it was just 10 years ago. And yes, it is because of the accessibility of screen technology and all the stuff that comes with it. How do I know? Because I have raised children on either side of the technological leap forward. My…