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How to Thrive while Homeschooling with ADHD

Jennifer · August 3, 2023 · 12 Comments

We live and breathe ADHD in this house. Here are the tips and tools we’ve learned to thrive while homeschooling with ADHD!

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Filed Under: Homeschool Tagged With: adhd, homeschool challenges, homeschool encouragement, special needs, struggling learners

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling with Memoria Press

Jennifer · June 12, 2023 · 7 Comments

Book shelves set up for homeschooling with Memoria Press materials

UPDATED for 2025! We’ve been homeschooling with Memoria Press since 2015. Here are the top MP resources, links, questions and answers — all in one place!

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Love of Learning: What Happened When I Stopped Worrying About It

Jennifer · April 10, 2021 · 4 Comments

Everyone says it’s easy to kill our children’s love of learning. It can happen if we expect them to do things they don’t enjoy. It will never return if we “do school at home” instead of homeschool. Our children could have life-long scars if we fail to make all our learning as sensory and relaxed as a nature walk.

Besides all this, we’ll become stressed, demanding mothers who lack any sense of joy or beauty.

These beliefs ruled our homeschool for five years. Here’s what happened when I finally dared to push back.

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Struggling Learners: Mild Needs Are Special Needs

Jennifer · February 23, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Child's declaration of victory when doing math says, Veni, Vidi, Vici

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know we have multiple children with mild special needs. But the term mild needs can be really misleading. Many people think it means learning disabilities only, but my children don’t have any diagnosed learning disabilities!

So what does “mild needs” actually mean?

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Filed Under: Homeschool Tagged With: homeschool challenges, homeschool encouragement, memoria press, simply classical, special needs, struggling learners

Homeschooling with Chronic Illness can be Beautiful

Jennifer · November 12, 2020 · 1 Comment

Homeschooling from bed with chronic illness

When you’re homeschooling with chronic illness, everyone says to use read-alouds, videos, and your children’s interests to get through the school day. It’s similar to the idea that “the best curriculum is the one that gets done.”

But as a chronically ill homeschooling mom, I want to push back on that advice; because we can give our children a deeper, richer education.

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Filed Under: Homeschool Tagged With: chronic illness, homeschool challenges, homeschool encouragement

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