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How to Homeschool on Your Vacation

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
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Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling can be *almost* all fun and games!

Cait has created several courses for homeschool parents. Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Kindred Collective. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
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It’s Labor Day weekend, summer’s last hurrah. Have you ever wondered how to homeschool on your vacation? I consider our family to be year-round homeschoolers. My children thrive when we have a routine in place and I’ve learned that it’s much easier to get back into the swing of things when we’ve been doing a…

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Vacation Sleep… Or Lack Thereof

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
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Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling can be *almost* all fun and games!

Cait has created several courses for homeschool parents. Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Kindred Collective. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
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A good friend once told me, When you go away with kids, it’s not a vacation. It’s a trip. And boy are those words true! Sometimes, when life gets overly crazy-making, I like to flee for a bit. We head up north, to my parents’ little condo in the mountains, and we do a whole lot…

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
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Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling can be *almost* all fun and games!

Cait has created several courses for homeschool parents. Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Kindred Collective. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
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My husband and I thought we’d be that family that travels with their children. We’d head away for a weekend here, a family vacation there. We figured that if we did it from an early age, we’d grow happy little travelers. And then we had Leo. Let’s just say Leo did not travel well. Leo…

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Hangover from Fun

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
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Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling can be *almost* all fun and games!

Cait has created several courses for homeschool parents. Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Kindred Collective. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
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Hangover from Fun Once, when lamenting how vacations with children are not what they used to be, my wise friend said, “When you travel with kids, it’s not a vacation, it’s a trip.” Isn’t that so true? I love going away with my children, and I’ll often take them up north by myself when Schizz is…

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Big-Hearted Families™ Summer Bucket List {Guest Post}

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Sarah Aadland
Director of Doing Good Together's Big-Hearted Families Program at Doing Good Together
Sarah is striving to make family volunteering a meaningful habit for her three animal-loving, social-justice-seeking, mud-pie-making kiddos. As Director of DGT's Big-Hearted Families™ Program, she creates resources for families that want to develop a kindness practice at home. For her own family and for participants in the Big-Hearted Families Membership Circle, Sarah has watched family volunteering create empowered kids, more connected families, and stronger communities. In addition to her children, Sarah tends a large garden, a small flock of chickens, and a habit of mindfulness amid the necessary rituals of parenting.

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Have you guys heard of Doing Good Together™? Recently, I had the pleasure of connecting with Sarah Aadland, Director of DGT’s Big-Hearted Families™ Program. Today, Sarah is here and she’s sharing a summer bucket list- and it’s unlike many of the others you’ll find online because it incorporates kindness. Keep reading to find out how you can…

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Little Poppies on Vacation!

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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
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Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley
Cait is a school psychologist, mom to three children, and an unexpected homeschooler. She loves nature, good books, board games, strong coffee, and dancing in her kitchen. Cait believes homeschooling can be *almost* all fun and games!

Cait has created several courses for homeschool parents. Cait co-hosts The Homeschool Sisters Podcast and is co-founder of Kindred Collective. Cait is also founder of the Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, a fantastic community of book-loving parents and the Gameschool Community at My Little Poppies, a vibrant community of gameschoolers.

Cait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and many others. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
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This week we were homeschooling on vacation.  The weather at the beginning of our vacation was perfection!  We had LOTS of pool time. We’ve reached a new milestone where I can actually read poolside while they play. I don’t have to be in there the entire time. In the middle of our vacation there was one really…

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