January 2026 Timeless Principles of Teaching & Learning It took me a long time to unlearn my own assumptions about school & how kids learn. Do you know what I mean? I thought learning & school were the same; therefore, more school = more learning. I thought my kids needed me to show them how everything works. I thought there must be a right/ best/ better/ superior way of educating at home & searched for years to find it. Today's newsletter is born out of my 20 year journey of thinking about...

The fourth winter & your child's progress. It's winter #4 over here in the midwest. And it got me thinking... our winter 1 - spring 1 - winter 2- spring 2 - winter 3 - spring 3 - summer 1 - winter 4- spring 4 cycle is a good metaphor for how kids learn. As the midwest weather does not go from winter to spring to summer, so humans do not learn in a directly linear fashion. Learning isn't like the left graph... it's much more like the right. Remember, "school" isn't a checklist of tasks to be...

Hellooooo! I keep trying to sit down and plan our school year so I can share it with you and start back up on homeschooling content, but life keeps coming up. Haha While I do have some ideas swirling around in my head, I have yet to make any concrete plans on paper. Alas. It's on my list for next week. You know what I have done to help our school year start off right? Download & print this 3 month meal plan! Holy moly - this is already lifesaving. I used it the other day. Quickly assigned...