Meet your HSLDA Special Needs Consultant: Kristy Horner is a homeschooling mama to her twins, Griffin and Gabriella. She lives in West Virginia and enjoys reading, participating in her local homeschool co-op, history, field trips, […]
Meet your HSLDA Special Needs/Early Childhood Specialist Consultant Krisa Winn. She is a homeschooling mom to two daughters. Krisa lives in Arkansas, where she enjoys gardening, watching old movies, and also loves to sing, play […]
Do you sometimes feel alone in your unique homeschooling situation? Ever wish you could just grab a cup of coffee and come over for a cozy chat with your HSLDA Special Needs Consultants? Please don’t […]
If I could give my younger homeschooling self some advice, it would be this: Pace yourself. I’ve been officially homeschooling for 11 years, and this year we’re teaching elementary, middle, and high school. While I […]
The Internet is here to stay. How do parents help their children use technology wisely and appropriately? This is the question all 21st-century parents must answer. They say there is nothing new under the sun, […]
One of the long-term homeschooling goals for our family is to help the girls develop a mature artistic taste (in the good sense!). We don’t want to micromanage their media consumption as teens and young […]
I like the idea of my preschooler having endless unstructured time to happily play alongside our homeschool activities. But let’s keep it real. Sometimes homeschooling with preschoolers—not to mention adding a baby and/or a toddler […]
No one ever accused me of being a boring kid. Just the opposite—nothing could stop me from playing an impromptu game of hide-and-seek at the local Walmart. I can only imagine my parents’ panic each […]
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, “fidget spinners” have hit the market as the Next Big Thing among kids. These toys first entered my consciousness this spring when […]
‘Tis the season…of apples. During the 16 years we’ve lived in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where orchards cover hundreds of acres, apples have become a gala event in the Jones household. It started with an accidental […]
