Episode 69: Never Say Never

Let’s be honest - we all have done things in our parenting and homeschooling that we said we would NEVER do. Discussing our “nevers” is a fun and reflective way to humble ourselves into being people more willing to change and grow. We also discuss the pros and cons of downloadable vs. printed curriculum in our Coop Q & A.

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Jessica is forging ahead with her biggest unit study yet - California history! Using California Out of the Box interdisciplinary study as the backbone of her curriculum, Jessica created this unit study pulling in primary and secondary sources and other fun activities for a thorough and memorable learning experience. Mandi shares the Theme Day: Video Games micro-unity study that she enjoyed with her kiddos.

Never Say Never

Don’t chain yourself to absolutes! We list seven reasons to never say never. Watch out! Your pride might be at stake when you use a “never"! We give some fun examples of our perfect parenting as well, with a number of nevers that might be very familiar to you. (Check out this post diving into one of our nevers about assigning grade levels.) Lastly, we offer three tips to ridding yourself of the absolute, morality-imposing, judgy speech in the spirit of maintaining good relationships with other homeschool moms.

Coop Q & A

When buying curriculum, should I buy the downloadable version or the printed version?

There are pros and cons to both - but we settled on downloadable. Listen here to our reasons why.

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