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How to Organize Your Spice Cabinet with Dollar General

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This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dollar General for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine. Here's a fast, easy way of organizing spice cupboards and spice cabinets in your kitchen thanks to products from Dollar General! We've lived in several apartments in our 10 years of marriage, and there is always something the ...

KiwiCo Atlas Crate Review: A Cool Way to Learn Geography in Your Homeschool

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Read my Atlas Crate review and discover how we're using this KiwiCo Atlas Crate to learn geography in our homeschool! It helps kids learn culture and world citizenship.I always enjoyed learning geography as a kid and was pretty close to competing in our elementary school's Geography Bee (or whatever it was called).As an adult, I'm not ...

Why We’re Not Taking the Summer Off from Homeschool

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We've been homeschooling since the beginning, ever since we realized we couldn't afford preschool for our twins. While the reasons and the conviction to homeschool have changed over the passing years, we've always done school at home.Our twins are now finishing up what would be considered their second-grade year. Academically, they are a bit ...

VIPKid – A Great Way to Earn up to $22/hr Teaching English Online!

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Want a great part-time work from home job? Then learn more about VIPKid!A few months ago, one of my college classmates posted some videos on her Facebook profile about her new job with and how much she loved it! As a stay-at-home mom to two little boys, it was a great way for her to earn extra money from home, doing something she has a degree ...

10 Tips for Homeschooling Older Kids with Toddlers and Preschoolers at Home

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This post is sponsored by ReadingEggs Junior. All opinions are my own. On our first day of homeschool this year, things were going really well. We were sticking to our new homeschool schedule like clockwork. School itself went fantastic and the new curriculum I purchased for English proved perfect for my girls.But, as I read to my ...

How My Homeschooled Twins Learned How to Read

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This post is sponsored by Bookroo. All opinions on teaching twins how to learn how to read are definitely my own. I never once thought teaching children how to learn how to read would be an easy feat, especially because I knew I'd be their teacher.I do not have a teaching certificate nor did I major in English in college. Sure, I enjoy writing ...

6 People You Forget to Thank All Year and Gifts They’ll Appreciate

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Needing some appreciation gift ideas for the mailman, hairdresser, doctor, teachers, apartment staff, or military personnel this Christmas season? I've got you covered. Once again, the Christmas holiday is upon us and I’m looking around wondering where the year went! The older I get, the faster it seems to go. Part of getting older means ...

8 Best Educational Subscription Boxes According to a Homeschooler

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Looking for an educational subscription box for kids? The following are among the best and most popular options out there today! One of the greatest things my dad did was send me postcards in the mail.My dad was an over-the-road truck driver. He was gone the majority of the week, and occasionally for multiple weeks at a time.Receiving a ...

24 Best Educational Apps and Websites for Kids

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It's crazy that something that I do each and every day can be so hard to teach my children. But I don't remember how I learned how to read, and chances are you don't either.I was not an early education major in college. I never learned the methods of how teach reading. I only recently learned what a CVC word is (consonant-verb-consonant like ...

The #1 Reason We Aren’t Sending Our Kids to Public School for Kindergarten

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The last week of August we officially began our homeschooling journey with our five year old twins. We did this even though I have two other children at home, a 2.5 year-old toddler who is my constant shadow and lap snuggler, and a brand new baby, born a month before homeschool began. Just thinking about homeschooling as a very tired, ...

5 Tips for Getting Your Kids Brushing Teeth Without a Fight

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There are just some battles no one really talks about when it comes to parenting. And one of those is brushing your kids teeth (and another is clipping toe nails and finger nails, as well as doing hair, but I'll save those for another day). You think it should be pretty simple to move a brush around a kids teeth for a minute or two, and keep their ...

Be a Learning Hero – Answering Your Common Core Questions

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Knowledge is power. When you know more, you can prepare more. You can make informed decisions. You can advocate better for your child. Many parents and their children now are facing standardized tests, and new ways of doing things as part of the Common Core Standards. And it's all very confusing. As a parent, I want to know what my children would ...