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.]
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You want to teach a co-op class, but you don't know what to teach? Here are 25 easy homeschool co-op class ideas you can put together, and you don't need to be an expert.
Here are co-op class ideas that I've taught, the kids have participated in, or been in our co-op. I tried to offer as many ideas for the class. Ideas for art classes, literature and communication, history and geography, and more!
Warm days are right around the corner. If you are ready to put away the school books and start looking forward to summer, then let's talk about bucket list ideas for summer.
Yes, mom, you need to finish out the school year, so don't put the books away just yet, but you can start planning your big adventures and make a bucket list ideas for summer.
Summer is the perfect time to step outside of your comfort zone and take on...
Just think positive thoughts about the terrible situation you are in and everything will be ok. That is typically the promise made from those who promote the idea of the power of positive thinking. But are we allowed to just have a bad day?
As a busy work from home mom and homeschool mom, it often feels like you can never have a bad day. The kids are watching us. We have clients to juggle. We need to keep up the façade of everything...
What are the best jobs for moms? You have so many things to juggle, so you need to know what will actually work for working from home and homeschooling.
You want to bring in extra income because you need to buy curriculum. You don’t really want to dive down the rabbit hole of an MLM, is it possible to work and school on your own terms? How do you actually find the best jobs for moms.
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/b...
I had it all planned out. I knew exactly how we would do homeschool dual enrollment. It was working great. Until the school changed the program, communicated very poorly on the changes, and I was back down the rabbit hole looking for schools.
College dual enrollment is exactly what it sounds like. Your high school student is taking college classes while in high school. Pretty simple.
This is a great way to get your student started ...
Good books history are the best way to introduce yourself and your kids to the events of history. And the best part is they don’t have to be burning.
History is exciting because you discover that truth really is stranger than fiction. And if you use good books history, then it becomes an exciting adventure. You can even add these books to your homeschool curriculum or read them aloud.
Through good books history your kids can dive ...
There are so many things that you need to do when you start a virtual assistant business. It is overwhelming. If you aren’t sure what to do first, then start with you virtual assistant website.
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/virtual-assistant-website
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW:
How to Get Clients as a Virtual Assistant
How to Earn Money from Home
How to Create a Website in 5 Painless Steps
How to Creat...
Homeschool planning can feel overwhelming. Even if you've been doing this for a while. Staring down a blank slate of another year is exciting and daunting at the same time.
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/homeschool planning
Find your tribe. Join the online community: Rebel Moms Club for Working Homeschool Mom: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rebelmomsclub
Working from home with a baby is a juggling act that rivals any circus. It helps to have the right baby gear. This is my mom tested and baby approved list of the only baby gear you will need working from home with a baby.
Working from home with a baby requires imagination and trial and error. It requires re-imagining your schedule, your sleep, dinner, and how to even work with a baby. It requires figuring out how to balance it all i...
Balance work and life, this is the unicorn we are always chasing. While there aren’t any perfect solutions, we can work towards better days.
It is frustrating trying to balance work and life, especially for a work from home and homeschool mom. We have our work from home mom jobs, teaching our kids something, and just regular mom life things. It is a lot.
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/balance-work-and-life/
I am fighting my child to get him to read. He is a reluctant reader, and it is a battle all the time. Is this familiar to you?
This is something I often hear from other homeschool parents. As someone who loves to read anything, it makes me want to cry when I hear of a parent struggling with a reluctant reader.
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/reluctant-reader
What do you put on teenagers resume? They need to get a job, but they need work experience to help them get that job. But they don’t have any.
It is a vicious cycle. How do you build a teenagers resume when there is limited experience?
Even for teenagers, it is important to craft a resume that stands out from the rest. Whether your kids are applying for their first job, an internship, or other opportunities, it is essential to sho...
If you want to work from home and homeschool your kids, then time management for moms who work from home is going to be your secret weapon.
The post will not be the normal time management for moms who work from home. You know things like how to prioritize your time to get more done. Or how to magically multiply your time.
But knowing how to divide your time, organize your tasks, create habits and plan to get things done is the secret...
Following your dream sounds nice. It is a piece of advice we like to offer to recent graduates, and we like to think we are following it. But is following your dream really good advice?
We have an unrealistic expectation. If we just follow our dreams, we find what we are looking for. We have to pursue our dreams no matter the cost. This is idea is so wrong because it usually leads to debt (massive student loans), unrealistic expect...
Do you despise how self-care is always presented? I do. What if there was a better way to do it? You can embrace your creative life to improve your mental self-care.
So I’m not a fan of the self-care mantra. At least how it is presented on Instagram. But I do understand the need for moms to unplug and take the mental load off. That is where the creative life comes in, and you don’t need to be creative to do it.
If you cringe every...
Time blocking doesn’t work for everyone. I know this is popular with all the productivity gurus, as a self-proclaimed guru here is your permission to toss it in the bin.
Time blocking is always presented as the ultimate productivity solution, but what if it just doesn’t work for you. Then you feel like you failed, and you will never get this time management thing figured out. The only thing left to do it is to eat chocolate and dri...
The best way to learn is by learning through experience. But this is also the most frustrating way to learn.
How do you keep going when you fall down again and again over the same thing? You keep going by learning from experience.
I get so frustrated when something doesn't work right. I don't have time to figure out the problem. It's just supposed to work. But looking back, it is these moments that have taught me th...
Book club is a sanctuary for homeschool moms. It is a place for literature lovers to come together and share their thoughts. If you aren’t in a book club or want to get one started, this is for you.
I’ve been part of a book club for a few years now, and the best part is the intellectual stimulation I get from hearing other viewpoints on a book. My favorite part, is we love to read weird books because the book club meetings are more...
I know it silly that I cried over groceries, in hindsight. At the time, it seemed like a perfectly natural response because sometimes moms just have a no good very bad day.
Have you ever had those times when the pressure gets to you, and you finally break over the smallest thing? If we are honest with ourselves the answer is probably yes. It was a difficult week. Nothing seemed to be going right for me, and it all came to a head ove...
Being a momtrepreneur means that you get to define success on your own terms. It means that you no longer need to fit into someone else's idea of how to work and school. But let's be real we all want business success. Did you know that you can improve your business success by improving your use of the English language?
Show notes and links: https://lifeunboxed.blog/improve-business-success/
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