Ray's Arithmetics Flashcards & Helps

Mother teaching her children It's just about impossible for us in this 21st Century to imagine how to use the schoolbooks left to us by those in the 19th Century. I know that I was at a loss when I first began to use Ray’s Arithmetics.   It was the same sort of feeling I get when one of my children hands me his i-Phone so that I can make a phone call. Where do I start? After...

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Large Family Mothering's Home-School Planner

Last year my old “brain” (the moniker I used when I was referring to my prized home-school journal) was looking quite tattered and shabby. There was no direct correlation in the layout and design of its pages (it was a menagerie of forms I had found for free and subject matter I had created from scratch) so I asked the Lord for guidance and renewed inspiration to make my planner more practical...

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Announcing Homeschool Sanity--The book!

Recapture the best from the past!  Now available in print from Amazon.com It's not easy being a homeschooling parent today. Educating one's children is an immense responsibility. There are so very many more "answers" than there are questions! It seems to me that everyone has a textbook, or a method, or a home-schooling philosophy. But how are we supposed to figure out just what...

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McGuffey's Primer Flashcards, Helps & Hints

McGuffey's Primer Flashcards, Helps & Hints    A Practical Guide to Understanding the 19th Century Mind   Author, Sherry K. Hayes Editor, David M. Hayes No program can give us a 100% guarantee that our children will learn to read no matter what they advertise, and none of us can precisely explain or predict how each child will react or what he or she will need in order...

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