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Housekeeping While Homeschooling

Doing the household chores can seem like a burden when you have so much else going on. There are some strategies to help make this burden lighter. Read through these ideas and tips on keeping your home clean and how to get the whole family involved.

Home Management Tips for Homeschool Families
Homeschool is school, but it's home, too--and housework will be with us always. How do you manage to keep up with household chores while homeschooling your children? Cynthia Townley Ewer, editor of OrganizedHome.com, explains how to lowering your standards, planning, and getting your children involved will help you reach your organizational goals. She suggests scheduling housework first, learning new time-saving methods, and getting needed support.
Keeping a Tidy Home While Homeschooling
Whether you are living in a disorganized pit of chaos and looking to make some changes, or just in need of a couple of fresh ideas to keep things rolling, this post offers some great suggestions.
Cycles not Perfection
Laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning--are these things ever really done. Rather than looking at chores as needing to be "finished," see them as part of a cycle of living within your household.
Organize-to-Homeschool
Homeschoolers face tremendous demands on their organizational skills. Frequently creative, hardworking, and goal oriented, they must manage the home, other children, teaching, and the many other demands of a stay-at-home parent. This board is designed to offer support, find solutions, and discuss troublesome situations. Although there are many aspects to homeschooling, the focus, the only focus, of this board is solving organizational problems related to home schooling. This group is a part of the Messies Anonymous website.
Get Housekeeping Help By Keeping It Simple
One of the basic housekeeping rules is to keep it simple. Roxanna Ward shares some simple tips for getting housework done without the hassle.

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Starting a Homeschool Co-Operative Overseas
Includes tips and ideas for starting a formal co-operative learning environment for the special situation of overseas living.
One Thinging High School: Noah

This essay shares the experiences of Noah, who was homeschooled through high school in both traditional and non-traditional ways, gaining control of his own education as he went along. 

Math for Preschoolers: More Than Just Counting
Preschool-age children are ready to explore more than one might think! Parents often focus on counting from one to ten, but there are many other skills that children are ready and able to investigate.
The Montessori Foundation, The International Montessori Council, & The Montessori Family Alliance

The Montessori Foundation, International Montessori Council, and the Montessori Family Alliance seeks to advance the philosophy of Maria Montessori and to empower families and communities to explore these ideas and incorporate them into the education of children. 

Am I Qualified to Homeschool My Child?

Some parents are unsure whether they are qualified to teach their children at home. Don't get caught up in the idea that you have to know everything first. With homeschooling, you can learn right alongside your children. 

Rebel Homeschool
A blog written by a Free Thinking mom about secular homeschooling her two teens.
Math Worksheets for Kids
These are math worksheets for preschoolers and above. there are over 100 printable kids worksheets designed to help them learn everything from early math skills like numbers and patterns to theri basic addition, subtraction, multiptheir basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills. These math worksheets are perfect for any teacher, parent or homeschooler and make a great compliment to any math lesson plan.
Home Schooling Mom as Teacher
This article explores some of the challenges of reinventing your role as mother into teacher. Strategies include trying lots of ways to entice your child's interest in learning, inventing your own teaching tools, and learning along with your child. 
African American Homeschooler
This is a Yahoo group email list for African American parent(s) who homeschool their children.
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
The Old Schoolhouse magazine is a Christian quarterly publication available to homeschooling families around the world, providing encouragment and support.

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