We have never stayed on schedule all day, haha! But the schedule does help, and I am so thankful for the scheduling kit I got from titus2.org.  It is called Managers of Their Homes.  I have the others about chores and school, and they’re great, too.  Some moms look at it and feel like it is not good for them since they are a small family.  But I disagree!  I was a mess when I only had one kid, and the sc

Homeschooling:I try to spend one-on-one time with our youngest child before I start the more intense schooling with the others so she sees that she is important to me.  Then she can face the day secure and ready to obey and be separated from me a little.   Then I move up the ladder to the first-grader and spend time with him.  It is easy to teach a 3 or 4-year-old beginning reading with phonics flashcards, so

Our kids like to read.  We have soooooo many books, and they just enjoy perusing through all sorts of them.  We are certainly not the experts on this subject, but here are a few ways that we guess they started getting interested in books. 1. One of the main reasons our kids read is that we don’t have our tv hooked up and don’t have video games.  2. One way to get them to read is to take them to a big

If you go to FEMA’s website (training.fema.gov) and then go to independent study maybe?  It is called Emergency Management Institute.Go to the course list, and it will tell you which courses give credit.  Some of them give you one hour, and some are a series, so you have to take 2 or 3 courses to get credit. Open the test, and open the summary or lesson PDF (whatever you can find in the PDF) and use that