The Essential Homeschooler Newsletter

The Essential Homeschooler LogoGet one quick dose of homeschool inspiration, two actually-useful tips, and three helpful resources all in one short-and-sweet newsletter. This is the 5-minute coffee companion your Monday morning will never be the same without!

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Issue 7: How to teach your child to quit and Women’s History Month resources

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.in

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Issue 6: The power of your words, an ice pop hack, and history resources that highlight under-told stories

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.” – from Teacher and Child: A Book for Parents and Teachers

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Issue 5: How homeschooling is like running a business, musical resources, and lessons for life skills

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” – from Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich Share this quote

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Issue 4: How to discourage your kids, the One Thing Principle, and an “infinity” of resources

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.” – from Infinite in All Directions by Freeman Dyson

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Issue 3: Socially awkward homeschoolers, how boredom is like a swimming pool, and the science of fireworks

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission

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Issue 2: What an education should NOT do, ideas for summer learning, and an amazing virtual tour

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote “Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.” – from Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto Share

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Issue 1: What is essentialism, a to-don’t list challenge, and a free digital lesson planner

1 inspiring quote + 2 pro-homeschooler tips + 3 can’t-miss resources =the 5-minute coffee companion you can’t start your homeschool day without. One Inspiring Quote Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done. – from Essentialism by Greg McKeown Share this quote

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