Quiet Time
I tried my best to delay it, and that worked for a while. But then one day, they all dropped their naps, and I was just about ready to weep…
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Lockdown Adventures: Gingerbread house
The closest I’ve come to ‘making’ a gingerbread house was using the IKEA gingerbread house kit. It was not much of a success with us. Some of the parts were…
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Lessons learnt after 5 months of Home Educating
There are so many reasons why we chose to homeschool, and it has only been 5 months (!) since we officially started home educating our children in the United Kingdom….
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Eternal Rewards
I love rewards. Especially after a job well done, there’s nothing sweeter than a reward: a commendation, a pat on the back, a gift maybe – if I’m being honest…
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Ed Emberley drawing books
I first heard about Ed Emberley when I did a random search for “drawing books for kids” on Amazon.com. His books have a lot of good reviews. Then I saw…
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Some Arts and Crafts we have done
I thought I would write a quick post of some of the interesting activities we have been doing from The Artful Parent. Below is a list of some of the…
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Starting to think about Art
One activity I was keen on doing with my kids during the pandemic (when we had endless hours and time together) was: Arts & Crafts. It is terrifying researching on…
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Big 5 and Life Skills
I did not know that “Life Skills” was an actual subject area until I started researching homeschooling! Since learning about it by browsing Facebook groups and blogs on Homeschooling, I…
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Adding more elements to our Routine
In my last post, I wrote about how our family worship time eventually became our first homeschool routine and Morning Time. Later on, as I did more thinking and research,…
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Supreme Objective
In my last post, I mentioned some of the books that helped me gain a better understanding of the Classical and Charlotte Mason philosophy of education. I also read Lou…
