Podcast Episodes

Start with Habits

Episode 83

Rather than grandiose goals for a new year, we should be focusing on small habits that we can build upon. These new year habits continue giving, because they become automatic. So we can gain their be…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Beating Homeschool Morning Blahs

Episode 82

Sometimes it’s weather, sometimes it’s illness, sometimes it’s simply fatigue. If you’ve been homeschooling for awhile, you’re probably familiar with the feeling: homeschool morning blah.

It’s normal;…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

The Habit of Making My Bed

Episode 81

I’ve written before about making my bed and why it is a goal worth pursuing, two and a half years ago, actually, and while I make my bed occasionally (which is a great improvement upon never, by prin…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Choose Conviviality

Episode 80

Is happiness an emotion reserved for those who have an easy life? Right now I have a child who thinks happiness is a life without math fact drill pages.

And, he’s onto something that misery is draggin…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Focus on Keystone Habits

Episode 79

Keystone habits, according to Charles Duhigg, are habits that give “small wins [that] fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievem…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Mom’s Mood Matters

Episode 78

It was about 5 years ago now that I deleted my old blog and started over from scratch, choosing the name Convivial Home for my new effort. A real estate agent promptly offered me a large sum for that…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Habits, Not Results

Episode 77

So much goal setting advice out there focuses on achieving certain outcomes. We’re supposed to set our eyes on a particular result we want to reach and work until we get there.

Maybe – maybe – this wo…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

How to lesson plan so you’re never behind

Episode 76

Some homeschool moms – maybe those with school-teacher backgrounds – have elaborate homeschool lesson plans – full sheets of papers full of ideas, notes, references, activities, and objectives.

Many h…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Evernote for Homemaking

Episode 75

Over at Simply Convivial I’m in the thick of a series about using Evernote for homeschooling, and I thought I’d make a companion post here at Simplified Organization about household records and plans…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago

Plan a Homeschool Day

Episode 74

What, out of everything in the plan, is essential to make our homeschool day count?

Because more often than not, at least at my house, the entire plan doesn’t get checked off. So what does need to hap…

Published on 8 years, 4 months ago