Category: Home Schooling

Today, I am sharing two more pages of our family rule book.  The first page is for older children that will be asked to baby sit.  The second page is instructions for our children when they are being cared for by someone other than parents.  We have a large family and children ranging in age

When you have fifteen children and homeschool people ask you a lot of questions. I don’t mind the curious questions, because let’s be honest I am nosey myself.  I like to know things, especially, things about people and how they think, and what they do, and why they do it. One question I get asked

Recently on Facebook, someone asked about celebrating milestone birthdays and achievements.  Over the years our family has changed our views on these types of celebrations, so I thought I would blog a bit about that change and where we are now.  In this post, I am going to focus on graduation from high school. When

Here at the Hirn Homestead, I, Tyler, am the resident organizer. I love organizing, cleaning out a space, packing, and creating a neat place.  Often, people hire me to come clean and organize for them, or to pack and move their belonging when relocating.  It makes me feel good helping others get organized.  Rachel suggested

I have been homeschooling for 20 years, and I have used lots of different curricula.  I prefer fun, easy, simple, and BIBLE solid materials. Several years ago, I decided to look into using the Bible as our only textbook.  In my search, I came across a company called Foundations Press.  Foundations Press is the mother

It’s been a while since I’ve written on the family blog.  Many readers have probably forgotten this IS a family blog, not just Mom’s blog.  That’s ok, it has been a long time since anyone other than mom has posted.  I have wanted to write several posts for the last few months now, and with

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