Life Unboxed Blog
Empowering moms to work from home and homeschool. Life Unboxed is a momtrepreneur's guide to raising kids, running a business, and keeping your sanity. So you can work at home and homeschool confidently. For more great momtrepreneur content check out lifeunboxed.blog. New episodes posted weekly.[Some of the links in the show notes are affiliate links. If you purchase using one of these links, I make a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps me keeps things free for you, and who doesn’t love free stuff.]
Episodes
223 episodes
Parent Guide to the Hardest Stage: Your Ultimate Survival Manual
Parenting is hard, but it is also the greatest thing we will ever do. This parent guide is going to walk you through the hardest stage of parenting. No, it isn’t the infant, toddler, or preschool stages. The hardest stage of parenting is...
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5 Practical Tips to Keep Grades for School When You Hate to Grade
Grading. This is the dreaded task. You know the kind of task you need to psyche yourself up for days ahead of time. And grading for 4 kids multiplies this feeling by 4. Teaching multiple grades, figuring out the right curriculum, and keeping gr...
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Essential Tips for Homeschooling High Schoolers
Homeschooling high schoolers means you are almost finished homeschooling. Unless, there are younger kids, then it is just the start of a new and exciting chapter in your homeschool journey. But homeschooling high schoolers mi...
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How to Make Money from Home and Homeschool Your Kids
Are you wanting to live your impossible dream, but you don't know how to make money from home and homeschool your kids? Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/how-to-make-money-fro...
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Highschool Credits Made Simple: Guide To Homeschooling Highschool
Highschool credits are important regardless of the path your teenager takes. If your homeschooling highschool, then you need to know about highschool credits. Understanding homeschool highschool credits is going to hel...
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Homeschooling Online: Screen Time or Not to Screen Time
Homeschooling moms are divided on this issue. We want to homeschool for the freedom to not be tied to our desks. Yet, homeschooling online opens the door for so many opportunities. What's a mom to do? There are pros and cons to h...
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The Self-Care Secret Every Exhausted Mom Needs to Know
Show notes and resources mentioned in the episode: https://lifeunboxed.blog/self-care/Self-care is a word that I love to hate. Mainly because the Instagram version of it is in co...
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Planning For Homeschooling: Everything You Need To Know
It is that time of year, planning for homeschooling! Out with the old curriculum or posted on Ebay, and in with the new. Planning for homeschooling can be fun and exciting, but it can also be a bit overwhelming. Whether you are new ...
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Survival Guide for Working at Home Mom: Coffee, Chaos, and a Plan
Some days feels like chaos as a working at home mom. Even to the point of researching private school tuition and wondering if you should get an office job. Mom, if you’re juggling work, homeschool, family, and everything in b...
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Flexible Fall Homeschool Schedule: Planning Your Homeschool For Fall
Creating a flexible fall homeschool schedule is going to give you the homeschool freedom you want while ensuring those little clones you created are learning. The transition between summer break and starting a new school year isn't ...
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Writing A Book And Other Creative Ways To Write In Your Homeschool
Get all the links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/writing-a-book/ Writing a book is a great way to add creative writing to your homeschool. Liven up your homeschoo...
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Unlock The Hidden Benefits Of Hiring Your Kids
Hiring your kids in your business is a great way to boost their resume, teach practical life skills, and add help for those mundane tasks you don’t want to do. I have a confession. Like all confessions, I will probably lose my momtr...
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How To Create A Homeschool High School Transcript
You've been homeschooling a while or you just started, and you've discovered that you got this. Yes, you can really teach your kids. You are sailing along on your homeschool journey. It's not perfect, but it is good. Then, suddenly, out of nowh...
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Create A Morning Routine To Chaos Proof Your Day
If you want to set each day up for success, tame the chaos before it starts, and just have a good day. Then you need to create a morning routine. I know the prevailing thought is to schedule every minute of your day. If you want to ...
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Balancing Summer Break and Work from Home
Summer break and work from home can really be a mixed bag of emotions. Your excited that the schoolwork is finally done. You finished the year, good or bad, it is done. But then there is trepidation wondering what you are going to do with the k...
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The Ultimate Guide To Homeschool All In One Curriculum
Homeschool all in one curriculums are a work from home mom’s secret weapon. But they get a bad rap in the homeschool world. If you want to streamline your education journey, save time, and still tailor education for your kids. Then ...
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Dual Enrollment Decoded: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Dual enrollment. I actually have a lot to say about it. At this point, my oldest son finished his associates degree, and my next two teens are about to start their second year. So I wanted to give an update on our experience with dual...
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Understanding Learning Styles For A Better Homeschool
Homeschooling is about freedom. It is freedom to choose your curriculum and work on your schedule. But it doesn’t mean this freedom is always easy. It does take intention. One of the areas that requires intention is understanding learning style...
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Homeschool Preschool: Tips for Busy Moms You Can’t Miss!
Get all the links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/homeschool-preschool/ Do you really need to homeschool preschool? The short answer is no. Now you can stop reading and be on yo...
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Homeschool Life: 7 Reasons Your Homeschool Was A Disaster
Do you feel like your previous homeschool year was a disaster? Now is the time to reflect on your homeschool life and determine how to make next year better…or at least avoid the things that made this year hard. Homeschool life is c...
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The Ultimate Guide: Best Homeschool Curriculum for Kindergarten
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/homeschool-curriculum-for-kindergarten/ There was a time that I was terrified of teaching kindergarten. It...
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25 More Easy Homeschool Co-Op Class Ideas
A homeschool co-op is a lot of fun, but it also fills the outlet for homeschool socialization. There are different types of co-ops, but a true homeschool co op is parent led and involved. Usually, the parents are teaching all the classes. ...
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Working Moms from Home: The Secret to Mastering Time Management
Working moms from home, do you feel like the to do list is never ending. You finally get to check a project off this list, just to add three more to it. It can feel overwhelming and never ending. What is the secret to mastering tim...
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