Don’t you find that life as a parent of young children seems like an endless cycle of small tasks? Feeding the baby, changing diapers, washing laundry, cleaning, going to work, grocery shopping, putting the food away, cooking meals, doing homework with the kids, putting toys away, washing dishes, blowing noses, dealing with squabbles, preparing snacks,…
Some time ago, I did a rather peculiar experiment with my children, which I shared on the ACPEQ Members Facebook group (some of you have probably seen it). The experiment consisted in taking two identical fresh fruits or vegetables (in this case, lemons), placing them in two separate dishes, in the same room, under the…
Hello everyone! I hope you’ve had a fulfilling summer and that autumn is shaping up well for your family. A few years ago, a wise Christian woman counseled me briefly on my journey into motherhood, at a time when I had three very young children. She made a statement that stuck with me: “Time is…
What can we do when the children’s motivation decreases and a certain sense of lethargy creeps into our home school? When no one wants to do “school” work and sighs and complaints are frequent? Close your school books and change the pace! Here are some activity suggestions that can be implemented to break up the…
A few weeks ago, we went through a rather difficult situation when illness invaded our family and two of my children had to be hospitalized, one after the other. On that occasion, everything seemed to fall apart at the same time… While I was in the emergency room with my 3 year old daughter, every…
It’s check-in time at our house! I’m not talking about the mid-term reports we have to hand in to the DEM (which we all love to write, don’t we? Hi hi!), but a short personal assessment that I do periodically with my kids. I like to ask them what they like about their homeschool or…
Dear families, I hope you had a lovely, relaxing and rejuvenating summer! As for me, I had a quiet summer (if family life with nine children can be described as peaceful, hi hi!), and an enjoyable one. My children didn’t feel like returning to school this autumn, so I had the idea of proposing an…
I would like to share several tips that I have discovered over the years to entice and encourage my children to write and develop their writing skills. Of course, they don’t always like the themes I suggest, but I have noticed that they are proud of themselves when they manage to produce a piece of writing, even if they don’t want to let it show. They gain something from it and their skills improve significantly.
In our home and in our spiritual life, we need these “logs” to warm our souls and allow us to continue with courage, while waiting for better times…
If you’ve been homeschooling for some time, you may have experienced a drop in motivation and drive in your children and yourself at certain times of the year. You have probably experienced days when everything seems to go wrong: the teenagers complain, the little ones fight, everyone bickers and the noise level is intense… Days when you would like to go and live on a deserted island, to put it simply!
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