In order to help the kids continue to immerse themselves in German, I pull them out of their regular school about one day every week (or on...

We are continuing to "part-time home school" our three youngest children. I keep them home from school one day each week (more or ...

We have an AMAZING local elementary school. We are so blessed that the principal and teachers have been so understanding and cooperative and...

I get excited about non-native bilingual parenting. Our family's bilingualism has had such a positive impact on everything that we do. ...

September arrived way too soon. I'm always so surprised at how quickly summer flies by. I always think I'll have the time to do summ...

As my first grader and two Kindergartners are learning to read, write and spell in English at our local elementary school, I am simultaneous...

I've been interested in finding out just how our "German experiment" has effected my children's English language abilities...

So, we're now into our second month of part-time German homeschooling. What is part-time German homeschooling ? Well, we're sending ...

I was so tickled by what happened last night, that I had to write a quick blog post about it: At night time, we usually have a lengthy rou...

For the past month, I have been homeschooling my three youngest children part-time. So what does that mean? Well, ever since last summer, I ...

I recently decided that I'd like to start saving up to take our younger children to Germany. We took our older kids to Germany in 2006. ...

It's always such a funny discussion when I try to explain to people that my kids struggle a little with English. Last year, when Jonatha...

A week ago, a very dear friend handed me a gift at church. It turned out to be a book that I had overheard her talking about in previous con...

For the past year or so, I've been mulling a bunch of thoughts around in my head regarding home school, alternative school, private scho...

So, the other day, my little 6 year old Jonathan was working on emptying the dishwasher. It was his job that morning. He's my little ana...

The boys play a German computer game. Love how the stuffed kitty is hanging by its tail and watching.  Having had the experience of ra...

I went to public school (and loved it) and so have all my kids. They have done well in public school. My three oldest have already graduated...

Let's face it, it is just plain hard to maintain a minority language when you're trying to raise bilingual kids. Even before my olde...

Starting school has been a little bit different with my second batch of kids than it had been with the first batch, although there are a few...

I think it's kind of funny, that when I'm filling out all the school registration forms, that I get to put down that my children...