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Maximize Your Homeschooling Hours: Tips for Focus and Success

Devote specific hours, called sacred school hours, to focus solely on school work. Parents should minimize distractions, such as household chores and social media, during these hours. The emphasis is on being present and available to support children's learning in an environment filled with potential distractions.

Our best homeschool accountability advice - Build in frequent check-ins (the younger the student, the more frequent the check ins), not only to celebrate the small steps of progress along the way, but also to make sure they’re not dawdling.

Dawn Garrett lives in Ohio with her husband Jason and their three always-homeschooled children - two graduates and a rising senior. In her homeschool, they learn about God and His cosmos by studying the seven liberal arts in order to know Him better, imitate Him and His ways, and share about Him with others. Her home blog – about books school and life – has been at ladydusk for 20 years.

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