Raising Arrows - Large Family Homeschool Life

There's not much I can say no to, but I can adjust how I say yes so it's more like a no and becomes more manageable in the process.

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What do you think of when I say Homeschool Schedule? A rigorous, segmented schedule that must be followed exactly or you will fall miserably behind? Let's change that!

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Creating a Homeschool Schedule You Love and Flexible Homeschool Planning

Resoures mentioned:

• Podcast 07 - Should You Homeschool Year Round?
• Podcast 10 - Schedules for Homeschooling Year Round
• Podcast 50 - How to Put Your Homeschool on Autopilot
• Podcast 77 - How to Anchor Your Homeschool Day
• Podcast 83 - How to Set Up a Simple Homeschool Schedule
• Podcast 86 - An Easy Morning Time Routine
• Podcast 125 - Ideas for Homeschool Schedules
• Morning Time with Multiple Ages - post
• Year Round Homeschooling page on Raising Arrows
• Autopilot Homeschooling - post
• Are Homeschool Groups a Waste of Time? - post

Large family methods for getting your kids in the kitchen helping with daily meals.

Resources mentioned:

• Podcast #189 - Creating a Meal Rotation that Isn't Boring
• Kids Cook Real Food curriculum

I don't love to cook and I have a very busy life, so I had to find a way to make meal planning less stressful and time-consuming.

Resources mentioned:

• Our Blackstone Griddle
• Special Night
• Large Family Meal Planning

3 simple hacks to get back on track when you are overwhelmed and don't know where to start.

Resources mentioned:

• Podcast #50 - How to Put Your Homeschool on Autopilot
• Podcast #184 - Living in the Sandwich Generation

We all want to enjoy the little years of homeschooling, but we also have this nagging feeling we aren't doing enough. When do we need to get serious about when and what we are teaching?

Get my book: Flexible Homeschool Planning to make your plans work no matter what kind of week you've had!

Resources mentioned:

• Podcast #26 - How Many Hours Does It Take to Homeschool?
• Podcast #138 - Tests Don't Teach
• Podcast #178 - Testing Your Child's Knowledge Without Tests
• Podcast #183 - Creating a Homeschool Transcript
• How Many Hours Does it Take to Homeschool? (free download)
• Preschool & Kindergarten Curriculum for Large Families
• Wonderment Curriculum
• Review of Peaceful Preschool
• Tapestry of Grace (page full of resources on my blog)
• How we use Apologia Science
• Berean Builders Science

We all intend to be great at this mother-in-law thing, but it tends to be a bit of an ugly mess as we learn a whole new parenting role.

Resources mentioned:

• Podcast 185 - The Black Wedding Dress
• Podcast 80 - Mistakes We Made Parenting Our College Student Who Lived at Home
• Podcast 102 - Homeschool to College
• Podcast 161 - Mothering Sons into Adulthood
• Podcast 163 - Spending Time with Your Teens
• More Than Grand website

My daughter's black wedding dress shocked a lot of people. Some comments were downright ugly, but they sparked a conversation that needs to be had in the conservative homeschool world - What are we teaching our children about appearances and "fitting in."

• Original Facebook post
• She Wears Skirts Series
• Jinger Dugger's Book - Become Free Indeed

Caring for aging parents while still caring for young children at home is happening more and more to my generation. This is my story and my way of managing it all.

Resources mentioned:

• Home Blessing (once a week house cleaning)
• Massage Chair we bought for my mom

Take the mystery out of making a high school transcript for your homeschooler!

Resources mentioned:

• Homeschool Graduation Requirements - A Simple Plan (post)
• Lee Binz The HomeScholar (Total Transcript Solutions)
• Homeschool Hall