Category: Productivity Tips

  • How to Select Curriculum

    How to Select Curriculum

    A central component of the homeschooling experience is choosing one’s curriculum. Curriculum, the plan of study a student follows, ranges greatly from homeschooler to homeschooler—thus one of the appeals to homeschooling families. My son studied the solar system for almost a year, Roman history for a semester and worked through a month-long history of Halloween…

  • Productivity Tips I’ve Learned After Homeschooling My Son for a Year: It’s Not Revolutionary, Just Gentle Reminders

    A glossy customized planner won’t make you more productive I reminded myself as I perused 2023 academic planners. Still, I bought two. November will be the year mark for homeschooling my son. I’ve moved up from slips of paper planning our daily lessons to full-blown academic planners. It began as a solution to a Thanksgiving…

  • I Hate the Pomodoro Technique, Here’s Why

    If you’ve struggled with procrastination and searched for methods to conquer it, or if you want to maximize your production and dug into various productivity methods, there’s a good chance you’ve come across the Pomodoro Technique. People rave about it, I can’t stand it. Developed in the 1980s by a university student named Francesco Cirillo,…