Navigating the journey of raising children with special needs
Self-care, sometimes it can seem like a lofty dream moms only fantasize about. We work tirelessly for our families every day. We think we’ll be able to focus on ourselves again after they’ve all left the nest. I get it, parenting is a selfless job. There is no room for
This year we started our school year off by doing a short study on knights and castles for history lessons. We discussed the way of life, and how castles were protected. We also studied the rigorous training a young man would go though to become a knight. I remember thinking
Summer break is upon us. While we are taking a break from the academic side of learning, summer is a great time to teach our children various life skills. To be honest, I had every intention of teaching Grasshopper so many life skills this past school year. I didn’t get
Why oh why are we always so hard on ourselves? Why do we tend to be in a constant cycle of evaluating our homeschool? We look for what’s going wrong, wonder where and how we can improve. Sometimes we focus only on an area our child might be struggling in.
I can’t think of role as gratifying and rewarding as parenting. Parenting is also demanding, hard, and exhausting work. I don’t care if you are a stay at home mom, work from home mom, or work outside of the home mom, it is exhausting. I’ve been on both sides of