Blog — Holidays
Should Your Family Celebrate Halloween?
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What’s with our culture’s obsession with death and darkness? Why are so many neighborhoods just as festively decorated for Halloween as they are for Christmas (Americans spent $9.1 billion on Halloween last year)? Why do we wait in line at haunted houses and pay for someone to scare us? It is a bit weird.
Mom, you've got a 100% success rate!
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Christmas-schooling
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It's December, and it's a great time to put aside your regular homeschool routine as you visit with family, make homemade ornaments, and cook your favorite foods.
When my children were young, it was very hard to homeschool between Thanksgiving and Christmas break. So many extra activities,......continue reading
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Simply Stress-free Homeschooling
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Guest post, Deborah Wuehler, TOS Senior Editor
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Christmas- What really matters most
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Every year I do the same thing. I tell myself that I will get all my Christmas shopping, and gifts made and done before Thanksgiving. This has been a Christmas wish that continues to elude me! It has been on very rare occasions that I actually have sent Christmas gifts early enough that they arrive before Christmas. Such high hopes... maybe this year? I doubt it.
In my almost 28 years of marriage and 21 years of homeschooling, I have learned that we, parents, need to be the examples of how and WHY Christmas is celebrated...... continue reading