Category: homeschool
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Why Do Kids Love Plain Foods? A Nurse-Mom Explains Sensory Nutrition
Sensory nutrition looks at how the five senses—taste, smell, touch (texture), sight, and even sound—shape how a child experiences food. Children don’t just taste a meal. They feel it. They smell it. Their brain is processing dozens of sensory details at once. For some kids, this is exciting. For others, it’s overwhelming..
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Our Freshly Milled Sourdough Experiment: Four Grains, One Delicious Discovery
We’ve been making sourdough for a while now, but after this experiment, there’s no going back. Seeing the life and texture in freshly milled flour made us appreciate just how alive our food can be.
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🌲 Raising Little Naturalists: What Our Children Learned in Yosemite
There are some places that simply stop you in your tracks — places that invite you to breathe slower, look closer, and marvel at the wonder of the world around us. For our family, Yosemite was one of those places.
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🎃 Spooky Ferments & Gut-Friendly Ghouls
Halloween fills our kids’ imaginations with witches, ghosts, and magical potions — so why not channel that wonder into real-life science, nourishment, and play?
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Super Frugal Ways to Give Your Kids an Awesome Homeschool Education
Here are some of our family’s favorite super frugal (and super fun!) ways to build an awesome homeschool education!
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Disney With a Family of Six: Survival Tips from Magic to Meltdowns
Visiting Disney with a family of six is nothing short of an adventure. Between lines, crowds, rides, and snacks (so many snacks), you quickly realize that Disney is as much about survival skills as it is about magic.
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Dinosaurs, Diamonds, and Discovery: Why LA’s Natural History Museum Stole the Show
✨ Towering dinos, dazzling gems, calming seas 🌊 … the Natural History Museum of LA had it all!
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Medieval Times with Kids: A Royal Night of Fun and Learning
Sometimes learning history comes best not from a book, but from being right in the middle of the action.
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San Francisco: An Unexpected Classroom by the Bay
When we rolled into San Francisco, we expected a dose of culture, city sights, and maybe a little chaos. What we didn’t expect? How educational the city turned out to be for our roadschool crew. 🌉 Iconic First Impressions The kids had done their homework—so the anticipation was high as we drove across the Golden…
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Why “Unschooling” Needs a New Name (And What It Really Means)
The prefix un- makes it sound like something is missing. Like education is being rejected. That’s not what we’re doing at all.
A Bowl Full of Learners 