Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Thousands of books and internet articles have been written about how to succeed at homeschooling. But I'm going to offer you something a bit different. If you've ever wondered how to fail at homeschooling, you've come to the right place. Here are four easy steps to help you fail as at homeschooling. This vital information [...]
I decided to try something new the last time I baked my absolutely delicious double chocolate cake mix cookies; I lined my cookie sheet with parchment paper. I've never used parchment paper before, but I was getting tired of my cookie sheets burning my cookies. (And yes, if you're wondering, it was my cookie sheets' fault!) [...]
We're a very musical family — with me being a piano teacher and my husband a music minister — so my children have been around music since before they were born. It's little wonder that they've developed a love for music themselves. But it's still amazingly awesome to see a genuine eagerness to learn more [...]
How many times have you misunderstood someone when they spelled a word, a name, or a VIN or serial number over the phone? P's sounded like B's, S's sounded like X's, and so on. To prevent confusion in situations like this, customer service agents are often trained to use a spelling alphabet to make them [...]
I'm a piano teacher and my husband is a music minister, so people tell us all the time that our children have no hope — they are going to turn out to be musical kids. And it's turned out to be true. All three of our kids seem to have developed an ability for music; [...]
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a world-wide event that takes place every November in which each participant tries "to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30." NaNoWriMo is a fun way for aspiring writers to put into practice that often-elusive secret to becoming a successful writer — B.I.C. Also known as 'Butt [...]
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Joy is the wife of Jeff and mom to three more J's — Jaden, Jerah, and Joely.
She and her husband have been homeschooling their children since 2005, when their children were 3, 6, and 8. Joy works from home as a web & graphic designer and spends what little free time she has with her nose buried in a good book.
Joy's motto for parenting, homeschooling, and even business is “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” And that's what FiveJs.com is all about — teaching our children to "fish."
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