I know, I know, I was skeptical at first too. Every night, you’re going to write down what their chores and all their housework is for the next day. In fact, I would recommend it just be not beautiful because each evening, what you’re going to do is write down your kids’ assignments for the next day, all of their chores, all of their housework, that’s it. You’re going to get each of your kids a spiral notebook like this 25 cent kind you get from the grocery store. This spiral notebook system can really help here. So this is where spiral notebooks can help. So you feel like they’re waiting and waiting on you. If your kids are always waiting on you for their next school thing and you have a lot of babies or a lot of responsibilities and you feel like everyone is always waiting because they are actually always waiting and they’re probably also complaining that they’re always waiting, you feel pulled in a million directions, right? You’ve got to take out the trash, change the diaper, nurse the baby, rock the baby to sleep, and the kids are waiting for their next school thing. At that time, my kids’ school day was really dependent on me. Now, let’s go back to the time when my kids were 12, 10, eight, one and newborns and my friend Sheila came over to show me this method. But if you’d like to see the notebooks for yourself, go to /229. I’ll try to describe everything I’m showing on the video for those of you who are just listening. So if you are listening to this on the podcast and you’d like the visuals, head to /229 to watch it. Now, this episode of the podcast is actually also a video because I thought it would be easiest to show you the notebooks rather than just to tell you about them. So today I’m going to show you what those spiral notebooks are, how to manage them in the easiest way possible, and some tips for keeping them very simple and really effective. Jessica wrote, “These notebooks save my sanity.” I tried to move away from it to save time, but I came right back to it.” Yep, same, Lauren. How could a simple spiral notebook completely change our homeschool? But it did.” Gaze said, “This spiral notebook technique completely revolutionized my homeschool.” Lauren wrote, “I love this method. Megan said, “I still cannot get over how this literally changed our lives. It was probably the biggest game changer in my homeschool.Īnd since I first shared this idea maybe eight years ago, I’ve heard the same from so many of you. But we’re still homeschooling because we also have an 11-year-old and twin 10-year-olds, and I want to tell you about what my friend Sheila taught me on that faithful day when she brought over some simple spiral notebooks and how that impacted our school. All three successfully graduated and off to college. My husband Andrew and I have actually graduated three of those kids. Now, I’ve homeschooled my own six kids from the beginning. Every time I stop to do something else that’s more fancy or more beautiful or more complicated, I end up just coming back to the good old spiral notebook because it works so well. Now, I’ve talked about spiral notebooks before, but it’s been a while, and they are, I think, the simplest, most powerful tool for getting a handle on your homeschool day. Today we’re going to talk about those spiral notebooks, which turned out to be the simple tool that has had the biggest impact on my homeschooling life. So today I’m showing that same method to you. So I cleared a path to the door and she came and she showed me how a 25 cent spiral notebook could completely change our homeschool for the better. I will bring some spiral notebooks.” She meant one of these bad boys, these 25 cent spiral notebooks. And so she said, “Okay, I am coming over tomorrow. I think I looked at her with something of a blank stare. Anyway, she asked me how I was keeping the kids on track for their schoolwork and how much they could do when I wasn’t able to lead them through it. Well, I remember one particular week, I was at church and a friend of mine, Sheila, who had homeschooled her three kids all the way through, asked, “So how’s homeschooling going?” Naturally, I burst into tears. That sounds crazy, right? Life was a little chaotic. During my hardest year of homeschooling, I had a 12-year-old, a 10-year-old, an eight-year-old, a one-year-old, and twin newborns.
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