Thursday, 03. December 2009 by Renee Ellison
Enjoy the many health benefits of rebounding exercise by purchasing your own Needak® soft-bounce folding rebounder at a discount from us, PLUS we will give you a a $30 coupon toward any purchase of downloadable items from HomeschoolHowtos.com. With one of these mini-trampolines in your house, you and yours can exercise at the drop of a hat, no matter what the weather is doing outside! NASA released a study announcing that rebounding on a 3-foot diameter mini-trampoline is the absolute BEST EXERCISE ON THE PLANET! Because it exercises every cell in your body against gravity – even your optic nerve, even your brain, even your appendix and big toe! Jump IN extra oxygen while you pump OUT your entire lymphatic system to eliminate stubborn microscopic waste. Research shows that you accomplish far more with less effort cardiovascularly than walking, jogging or treadmilling. AND, you won’t have to bundle up, or worry about slipping on the ice!
Saturday, 14. March 2009 by Renee Ellison
Have you seen our new QuickBook on How to Make Optimal Homeschooling To-Do Charts ? We’ve already heard from two mothers who implemented it. Both reported that the very NEXT DAY their homes went from chaos to order and all SMILES!!! One was a brilliant woman Ph.D. doctor attempting to educate her children at home and it was chaos. She thought her kids would LOVE this short and sweet route, and sure enough, they DID. The other mom reported that they were all done with homeschool by 11 o’clock in the morning and she is sooooo happy!
A third mom wrote that her family has tried using rigid schedules 100 times and felt that they were failures because the schedule NEVER worked. Her husband would get upset that the family didn’t stick to it. With many young children, something ALWAYS changes the schedule EVERYDAY. She was encouraged to read about a more flexible approoach. Now, when people visit and want to know what she is teaching the children, she can show them their charts. She is glad to have the children policing themselves—something that brings peace to the home.
When children are OCCUPIED with the completion of their own progressive mini-tasks, they don’t have time to hit, scratch, bite! Read the article, it is LOADED with all sorts of tips to make your day go smoother.
Monday, 20. October 2008 by Renee Ellison
Read Renee’s latest news for homeschooling moms, which mentions the blogs she has been writing to encourage you. Her latest was a funny one on how to stay warm in the winter! Many of the blog entries were written in direct response to a mom’s actual question regarding some schooling glitch, disciplining a difficult child, how to get along better with hubby, etc. Also, we want you to know about Renee’s one-day hands-on domestic workshops in Durango: in the morning she covers Cooking with Confidence; the afternoon topic is Sewing Tricks and Tips. The workshop includes 2 free nights’ lodging. It costs $99 for mother or eldest daughter. If you want to BOTH come (and/or bring a friend), the second person is 1/2 price ($50). This power-packed workshop will take you from where you are now, to significantly increase your homemaking skills in both areas. You AND your family will be glad you came. You’ll leave smarter and more confident, with a whole bag of tricks you’ll wish your grandmother had taught you years ago!
Looking to get out of the city? If you know of anyone interested in buying a home in Durango—country living with city convenience—read about a home for sale in Durango. The October ‘08 issue of Money Magazine included Durango (in beautiful southwest Colorado) among the top six retirement destinations. It considered towns that are close to water, have good medical care, relatively low taxes, affordable housing (this one is way below the average price for Durango), well-rounded communities, and lots of indoor and outdoor activities. It’s our property. We just want to be more fleet-footed. But not to worry, our FLC mailing address here will remain the same indefinitely!
Thursday, 04. September 2008 by Renee Ellison
Renee has produced her 100th homeschool how-to. This one is Beginner Sewing Basics: Why sew? Plus a checklist of sewing skills to conquer. Like most of her other how-to booklets, this one is inexpensive (costs less than 3 dollars) and will help to motivate a mom to make headway in yet another aspect of home management. Renee began working on these how-to’s thirty years ago while she was a teacher in various types of schools up and down the Front Range of Colorado. The joke her family has heard for the last ten years is when Renee has said, “Really, this is the last one I’m going to produce. Now I’m going to settle into cooking the meals, making the clothing, and other aspects of home life (along with homeschooling).” That was when we were at about number 40. There’s no telling how far into the hundreds Renee will go with her future (as yet unknown to the rest of us) how to booklets and home management solutions, but to celebrate, we’re having a sale on a funny DVD about how to manage groups of children. Renee (and hubby Todd, as “Mr. Wrong”) produced this video as one of the first projects of their married life in the early 1990s. It’s on sale just in time to give a boost to all you parents who are taking on running an Awanas program or other children’s club this fall. Order the DVD today and get some laughs along with some very helpful tips.
Tuesday, 29. April 2008 by Renee Ellison
We have transformed this website into a dynamic site that will better serve your needs. First, it is browser based, offering you greater flexibility and ease of use because you can do a keyword search of everything on the site. Second, we have improved our capability of offering you downloadable PDF files. And third, the site uses blogging rather than static fixed web pages—which connects us more closely with the world of Internet search engines. The end result of these three areas of improvement: we are moving us into a better level of communication with you.
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, a prominent magazine for homeschoolers, cites statistics gathered by The International Digital Publishing Forum, that “sales of digital books in the wholesale market more than tripled from 2005 to 2007. In late 2007, Amazon’s new electronic reader for books and newspapers sold out in a matter of hours. People are expecting information to be readily available via their computer, cell phone, PDA and other electronic devices.”
Ipswitch, a provider of file transfer software, recently reported that “the number of PDF documents indexed by Google™ is topping 100,000,000 [one hundred Million!]. PDF has quickly become the electronic equivalent of printed paper and ultimately the worldwide standard for sharing documents. That’s because PDF documents are compact, universally viewable, print the same as they do from their original application, and they’re not as susceptible to carrying computer viruses as other formats.”
A key benefit of this revamping of our website is digital delivery of the content you are finding here:
* Faster delivery—no matter where you are in the world.
* No shipping charges—free delivery of ebooks.
* Ability to store the files on your computer for you to retrieve at any time. This can reduce paper usage and be a means of uncluttering at least one aspect of your home.
* Faster ability to find specific content of interest. You can open a pdf file and do a keyword search to take you a specific section of Renee’s homeschool how-to’s.
Please send us your comments, so that we can continue to serve you better! We invite you to add your comments, once you’re registered on our site and are reading one of Renee’s blogs or a description of one of our homeschool how-to’s.
