"Mom Moments"

So this past week has been a week of "mom moments". I'm getting ready to start my son homeschooling for 11th grade. As much as I love how independent he is becoming and how he works on most of his school on his own, It really hits me this year how quickly it has gone. We no longer spend each day learning through games, and sitting on the couch together. Now he is in classes that fit more his interests and ones he needs my input less...which for some of them is great because I couldn't help much. For example, he is taking Chinese 1 this year through an online school. He's been working on it for 6 weeks. I can't help him at all on this! Thankfully he has a great teacher who will break stuff down and help him when needed. It's fun for me to watch him learn on his own and see the satisfaction of knowing what he has accomplished.

So after thinking on this, we spend Fri and Sat celebrating with a friend who graduated this past year and is now heading to college. Wow..this was a huge wake up call for me. It's a little scary to start seeing his friends leave home knowing it could happen with us in a couple years. I don't know what my son will do about college, work or wherever he is called to, but I know that he can't stay home forever:)
As much as I would love that.

I think as a homeschool mom it's even harder to let our kids grow up. They are with us 24 hrs a day, so we aren't as used to them being gone every day. I am thankful to have this time and to have the foundation for a lifelong friendship when my son grows up.

Grammarics

As a homeschool mom, I was thrilled to be able to help promote this product. Grammarics is a unique and wonderful program which helps teach young children grammar in a way that will help children be able to learn at a quicker pace, in my opinion.

This book has wonderful and easy to follow grammar rules but what I liked the best were the pictures that went along with the rules and descriptions. The pictures make the learning process so much easier, especially for visual learners.
 Here is an example of one page of the book:

See how well it puts the picture together with what the sentence reads. I really wish this program had been around when my son was learning grammar. Not only does this book make it easy to understand, but it makes learning fun! Great for homeschool, but also a great help for kids who might need an extra look at a specific part of grammar that might be confusing.


A big irritant for many people is when the following is used incorrectly. Here is a great way to help kids (anyone really!) remember which way is correct:

You can find the book and also some great posters at www.grammarics.com

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Disclosure: I received an ebook copy of Grammarics in order to do my review. I was not required to do a positive review. My reviews are always honest and my opinions are my own.