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Author Heather Mills Schwarzen

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Heather Mills Schwarzen is the wife of one globe-trotting, church-planting adventurer, and mother to 9 beautifully messy children who have given her the opportunity to log 18 years of her life as a homeschooler. She writes about parenting, homeschooling, special needs, adoption, and serving a very big God through the mundane stuff of life on the family's blog, To Sow a Seed. The family has been happily Sonlighting since 2002.

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How To Turn Any Sonlight Read-Aloud Into STEAM Gold How To Turn Any Sonlight Read-Aloud Into STEAM Gold // Jun 28, 2019
A 4-part Checklist for Your Play-based Learning Toolbox A 4-Part Checklist for Your Play-Based Learning Toolbox // Jun 14, 2019
4 Questions to Ask Your Harshest Homeschool Critics 4 Questions to Ask Your Harshest Homeschool Critics // Jun 10, 2019
Being a Homeschool Curriculum Junkie—How & Why to Just Say No Being a Homeschool Curriculum Junkie—How & Why to Just Say No // May 31, 2019
3 Ways To Give Your Summer Structure 3 Ways To Give Your Summer Structure // May 24, 2019
3 Ways to Know Your Kids are Retaining Their Homeschool Lessons 3 Ways to Know Your Kids are Retaining Their Homeschool Lessons // Apr 29, 2019
Help! My High Schooler Hasn't Been Doing His Work! Help! My High Schooler Hasn't Been Doing His Work! // Apr 24, 2019
4 Field Trips You Haven't Taken (& How To Tie Them to Sonlight) 4 Field Trips You Haven't Taken (& How To Tie Them to Sonlight) // Apr 15, 2019
Bigger Than Goals: Why You Need a Homeschool Mission Statement Bigger Than Goals: Why You Need a Homeschool Mission Statement // Apr 10, 2019
Homeschool Mom, Are You Getting the Socialization You Need? Homeschool Mom, Are You Getting the Socialization You Need? // Apr 01, 2019
8 Low Budget Ways to Add Performing Arts to Your Homeschool 8 Low Budget Ways to Add Performing Arts to Your Homeschool // Mar 04, 2019
Why You'll Never Find Balance (But What to Seek Instead) Why You'll Never Find Balance (But What to Seek Instead) // Jan 28, 2019
A Typical Day in the Life of a Large Family Homeschool A Typical Day in the Life of a Large Family Homeschool // Jan 25, 2019
Easing the Special Needs Student Into Homeschool After a Break Easing the Special Needs Student Into Homeschool After a Break // Jan 11, 2019
Homeschooling Pre-teen Boys: 8 Guidelines That Bring Peace Homeschooling Pre-teen Boys: 8 Guidelines That Bring Peace // Dec 03, 2018
You Want Me To Talk to My Kindergartener About Nazis? The case for reading Twenty and Ten You Want Me To Talk to My Kindergartener About Nazis? // Nov 16, 2018
STEM Students Need Literature, Too STEM Students Need Literature, Too // Nov 07, 2018
5 Ways to Bring the Great Commission to Life in Your Homeschool 5 Ways to Bring the Great Commission to Life in Your Homeschool // Oct 24, 2018
7 Ways to Salvage a Homeschool Day That's Headed South... Fast 7 Ways to Salvage a Homeschool Day That's Headed South... Fast // Oct 15, 2018
Give Your Teen the Gift of Independent Learning by Homeschooling Give Your Teen the Gift of Independent Learning by Homeschooling // Oct 03, 2018
Why It's Okay That I Do My Entire Curriculum & Tick All the Boxes // Sep 24, 2018
Experience India and Give Your Kids the Same Advantage Mine Have // Sep 14, 2018
Homeschooling as a Way to Genuinely Mainstream Special Needs Kids Homeschooling as a Way to Genuinely Mainstream Special Needs Kids // Sep 03, 2018
Extend the Sonlight Experience at a Christian Liberal Arts College Extend the Sonlight Experience at a Christian Liberal Arts College // Nov 13, 2017
The Book We Didn't Love // Nov 04, 2015