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Creative writing is a great tool to use in your homeschool. It offers an outlet for creativity and free expression, a place to explore ideas, and is an excellent way to practice communication skills. Check out this Homeschool Living for ideas for strategies for teaching creative writing, creative ways to encourage reluctant writers, and fun ways to use creative writing in your homeschool. Though far from the only subject you’ll teach in your homeschool, writing is one of the most important skills to start teaching early and to continue to develop over time. Creative writing influences cognitive development by encouraging...

Two of my three kids failed to learn to read in public school. We did all the right things—filled our house with books, read to them as babies, enrolled them in preschool programs and sat with them in the evenings as they muddled through their early readers sent home by kindergarten and grade one teachers. With my eldest, we patiently waited for the click. “Oh, she’s just young,” her kindergarten teacher told us. Which was true—her birthday is in late December, making her one of the youngest in the class. “She’s just not interested” was another common teacher assessment. Our...

I lived through a very wild week.  If you are a long-time blog reader you know we are an “it takes a village” type of family.  We all pitch in and help whenever we can. Let me see if I can even remember what all happened… It started out on Sunday the 17th.  Craig is busy as fieldwork is starting to happen at the farm.  Kalissa is busy as the hospital where she works as a nurse is short-staffed and overwhelmed with Covid patients.  She is constantly getting messages begging for nurses to come in and work overtime. That meant...

 Title: The Baby-whisperer and the BruteSeries: Eastport Bay Billionaires #4Author: Tru TaylorGenre: Small Town Romantic ComedyCover Design: Emily Cover DesignPhoto: Eric McKinney, 612 PhotographyModel: Quinn B.Release Date: October 19, 2021BLURBYou can’t appreciate all the implications of the word “conflicted” until you come face to face with the guy you’ve been secretly lusting after for weeks... and then learn he’ll be signing your paychecks—Angelina Rappaport Some people might call me sheltered. That doesn’t begin to cover it. I’ve been practically sequestered my whole life. Constantly warned by my eccentric and reclusive mother against the “dangers of the world,” I was only...