Welcome to my Mentoring Our Own blog. This is my new, optimized, all-in-one website. I will blog here about homeschool, home, family, and life! That about covers everything, doesn't it? Mentoring Our Own was originally a yahoo group I started in January 2002. The group was an online home for our local homeschool study group. […]
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Autumn is upon us. The weather is getting colder outside. The lure is to go play in the leaves, but when we come inside we want to warm up! During the colder autumn evenings, I enjoy warming up with a hot bowl of tasty soup! With the cooling weather it is fun to curl up […]
Continue readingPower of an Hour: Gateway to a Classical EducationFree Live Homeschool WebinarJoin us for our next webinar on: Thursday, 26 October 2017, at 1:00 PM PST2 PM MST, 3:00 PM CST, and 4 PM ESTPlease Register Below!Please share the link below with friends who may be interested. What can be taught in one hour? Are you struggling […]
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It is said, “What is down in the well, comes up in the bucket.” What is down in your well? Will your family find invigorating and thirst quenching refreshment? Or will they find the well dry or stagnating?Mothers lead their children, so mothers are leaders. Where are you leading your children? It is said that […]
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Lately, I have been seeing a meme about “Merry Thanksgivoween” with a picture that blends Halloween with Christmas and pilgrim snowman, as well as, a token jack-o-lantern with a pilgrim hat and beard. Really, this implies that being thankful and celebrating that thankfulness is being lost as the holidays merge. Just say NO! Are you tired […]
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HomeSchool Essentials Webinar~Writing for Retention~the Benfits of NotetakingThursday, 2 November 2017, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time2:00 PM Mountain Time, 3:00 PM Central Time, and 4:00 PM Eastern TimePlease share the link below with friends who may be interested. A 21st Century Approach to “Teaching Writing for Retention~The Benefits of NotetakingLearn how to increase understanding and retention through […]
Continue readingHomeSchool Q & A Webinar:Writing for Retention~The Benefits of Notetaking!Thursday, 2 November 2017, at 1:00 PM PDT2 PM MDT, 3 PM CDT, and 4 PM EDTPlease share the link below with friends who may be interested. Learn how to increase understanding and retention through writing: Commonplace Books, tabbing, and indexing methods.Epiphanal Note-Taking System.Cornell Note-taking SystemUsing the Tri-Fold […]
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The British educator, Charlotte Mason, taught the concept of nature studies and keeping of nature notebooks or journals. Nature studies and nature notebooks are the perfect project based and interest led medium. The nature notebooks combine three traditional kinds of record keeping all in one place. The best example I have seen in print of […]
Continue readingHow to Teach Your Children How to WorkLive Webinar: Family WorkThursday, 19 October 2017FREE Live Webinar at 1 PM PDT(2 PM MDT, 3 PM CDT, and 4 PM EDT)Please share the link below with friends who may be interested. Are you trying to teach children how to work and help them develop a work ethic? Do your […]
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I have discovered that the study of Genealogy is a great segue into, history, geography, research, writing, and more. What is Genealogy? It comes from two Greek words, one meaning generations and the other meaning knowledge. As we study and research our ancestors we can often discover where they lived, conditions that caused them to […]
Continue readingPower of an Hour: Gateway to a Classical EducationFree Live Homeschool WebinarJoin us for our next webinar on: Thursday, 12 October 2017, at 1:00 PM PST2 PM MST, 3:00 PM CST, and 4 PM ESTPlease Register Below!Please share the link below with friends who may be interested. What can be taught in one hour? Are you struggling […]
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