Melissa Barreto

Single motherhood is becoming a norm. In 2021 the US Census Bureau reported that close to 80 percent of single parent households in the US are headed by single mothers. Statistics aside, single moms have a huge task ahead of them.

It’s easy to talk about divorce as a statistic. It’s easy to assign numbers and apply broad labels. But people are not data and lived experiences hold far more depth and complexity than statistical reports can ever represent. 

No one can deny that our children are growing up with far more access to technology than we ever did.

When I think of summer, my mind immediately drifts back to a few beloved childhood memories: the smell of salty air and coconut lotion at the beach, jumping off the side of my father’s fishing boat for a quick swim in the ocean, eating LOTS of frozen popsicles, and riding around the neighborhood

Family meetings are casual sessions where you and your family sit down face-to-face, without distractions, to discuss matters that are important to you. They can be used for any number of reasons but I’ve found them to be an especially wonderful tool for assessing your homeschool life.

As parents, we know that not every day is a great day for either ourselves or our children. That is the case with homeschooling, too, when our day-to-day lives with our children don’t turn out to be the happily ever after story we thought they would be. Sometimes our kids are unhappy.

Are you thinking of joining a homeschool cooperative but aren’t sure if it’s really what you need? A homeschool cooperative (co-op, for short) is a group of families who choose to homeschool their children together.