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Our Homeschooling Journey

Our Homeschooling Journey

  A Homeschooling Blog Post    This homeschooling blog post was only ever written for private readers. If you are here then it is because you found a link in another one of my homeschool posts or I have shared the link with you. However you arrived...

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Homeschooling Schedule 2020. The Right Way & The (Disastrous)

Homeschooling Schedule 2020. The Right Way & The (Disastrous)

Why do you need a homeschooling schedule? Because without one you will spend your days wandering from one project to another. Feeling extremely busy but accomplishing very little, if anything, at all.

How strict does the home-schooling schedule need to be?

Strict enough to keep everyone happy but not too strict that you become a slave to the schedule.

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Staying Positive In Lockdown (It’s Not All Worm Sh*t) PODCAST #20

Staying Positive In Lockdown (It’s Not All Worm Sh*t) PODCAST #20

Yesterday, at 12pm, New Zealand went to level 4 and as such, the entire country is currently in lockdown for (a minimum) of four weeks.

Saying it and doing it are two different things.

When you are going about your daily life, walking to work and drinking coffee in cafes with buskers outside, the idea of spending a month with the same people behind closed doors seems somewhat of a novelty.

It wouldn’t be too bad, you think to yourself.

And then it starts.

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The Difference Between Me & My Husband.

The Difference Between Me & My Husband.

  They say opposites attract.  I met my husband when I was 17. I turned forty-seven this year. Thirty years of opposite behaviour and still he hasn't told me to sling my hook.   He is calm. I am an erratic nutter.   He says to the kids: "let's just...

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