Posts by "Rachael Carman"

Ah, the summer memories from my childhood! I  don’t ever remember ever wearing shoes during the summer months. I remember cool, foggy mornings with early birds heralding the dawn of a new day. I remember sleeping in, and I mean late. Nowadays that means 7:30 or 8 o’clock, but during my childhood, it meant pushing...

It can be daunting to attend a homeschool convention and start to select homeschool curriculum. The first time I walked into a homeschool conference, I gasped and said, “I don’t know where to start!” It can be very intimidating. I want to share five key things you need to know before you begin to select...

Answering the Call to Homeschool Choosing to educate our kids at home is a radical, out-of-the-box, and arguably strange decision. It’s a decision most of us have made with more than a little fear and trepidation. We thought about it, prayed about it, fought it, denied it, avoided it, put it off, researched it, defended...