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If you have no personal experience with Montessori schooling, you have perhaps at least heard of this educational method or have seen the Montessori kindergarten buildings. New techniques in education tend to come and go, staying in fashion for a ...

Everyone has spiders around them. The arachnids are nearly everywhere on the planet and pretty hard to avoid. Whether you live in a small apartment, a sprawling mansion, or somewhere in between, these little guys are living in the nooks ...

One of the benefits to being a teacher in a traditional school is that you get to go home at the end of the day. You don’t have that option, and that means you can get a serious case of ...

Do you remember your days in school when you had a test or a quiz? The stress, the studying, the worrying? Test-taking is often a child’s least favorite part about school. Learning can be fun, but studying and taking tests ...

Summer vacation is an antiquated idea. When a much greater part of the population farmed and relied on that as a way of life, kids were needed to work the fields in the summer, so school went on a hiatus. ...

With all of the things calling for your attention on the homestead, it’s all too easy to get distracted and procrastinate and never give certain jobs the attention they deserve.  Whatever those jobs are, they really do need to get ...

While homeschooling your children is mostly rewarding, there are some serious challenges to face. If you have a teen, getting her ready for college is one of those challenges. You spent hours planning, preparing, and teaching her academic subjects to ...

With the huge amount of recalls that began in 2007 and continue sporadically to this day, the pet food industry has lost the business of many pet owners. Many dogs and cats have become ill and have even died because ...

Food storage is one of the most important aspects of prepping and survival planning. Even if you have a nice homestead set up with a garden and livestock, you should be prepared with stored foods. This can include canned goods, ...

Our bodies tend to accumulate toxic substances that can hinder our ability to achieve optimum health. Toxins can be biological, physical and chemical, and they go to work damaging cells, organs, and tissue in the body. While the body has ...