Simple Living and Homeschooling
Does the thought of surprise guests make you want to draw the blinds and lock the door? Is your “quality family time” overshadowed by looming chores and unfinished tasks? Do you slip through the drive-through or throw a commercial frozen casserole in the oven more often than you’d like to admit?
One of the greatest blessings of homeschooling is that our kids really live and learn at home. (While on average, school children in America will spend over 1,200 hours at school away from home.) However, this also presents one of the greatest challenges of homeschooling. Managing lesson plans, extra-curricular activity schedules, meal plans, and household care with children around more often than not, requires greater family cooperation and involvement, and—perhaps—some simplification. This Homeschool Living explores some of the ways that simple living can benefit your home, your health, and your family.
Simple Home
Does green cleaning really make a difference in anything? How much does it matter what you use to clean your bathroom? Some of the items on this list of seven benefits of green cleaning may surprise you!
Are you thinking, “Are you kidding? How much time do you think I have to make my own laundry detergent?” Never fear! The Environmental Working Group (EWG) website reviews and rates more than 2,000 popular household cleaning products with grades A through F, based on the safety of their ingredients and the information they disclose about their contents.
Simple Life
Check out these ten benefits of simple living from Becoming Unbusy.
The idea of minimalism can seem scary. Do you have to replace all of your kids’ toys with a stick and a string? Does everyone get plain black and white clothes like some kind of colorless family uniform? Chantel from An Intentional Life explores the ways in which a more minimalistic approach can affect your family life in her post “Is Minimalism Right for Your Family?”
Simple Homeschool
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – commonly attributed to W.B. Yeats
This poignant post from a homeschool mom talks about how her family’s return to simple living allows her to incorporate more “fire” into her homeschool and “stop filling pails.”
Megan Mora Fuentes
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