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Has Facebook Lowered Blog Traffic and Comments?

1/25/11 6:58am by loraleechoate
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Facebook

Where I used to get an average of 60-80 comments a post. While I can still pull in 3-digit comments on the important posts, I am often lucky to get 30 or 40 comments now. (Sometimes I am annoying and flat out ask people to comment so my poor mother will stop calling me with worry that my blog is sucking up a storm. She's cute that way.)  Read more >

Discouraged: I Don't Know If I Can Keep Homeschooling

11/4/10 7:23am by loraleechoate
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Discouraged Woman

Maybe these are some of the "tough times" people who are awesome homeschoolers warned me about, or maybe I just REALLY SUCK AT THIS and should just realize it already. I just don't know how much of this is normal and ok, or if I am ruining his education and if he is going to end up being homeless and singing on the steps of some cathedral to sell bags of birdseed to fee pigeons in the park.  Read more >

I Work From Home ... and I Homeschool

10/27/10 7:16am by loraleechoate
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Homeschool Kitchen Mess

We are going into week 2 of our homeschooling adventure. It's been QUITE the whirlwind.And I am learning a REALLY valuable lesson with homeschooling. EVERYTHING IS EDUCATION. Everything. Helping bathe the baby? Learning. Grocery shopping with me? Learning. Running after the baby so he doesn't tear all the books off the shelf at Borders while I am trying to figure out what literature to buy you for next month? Learning.  Read more >

Exclusive Series: My First Day of Homeschooling

10/19/10 8:52am by loraleechoate
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Homeschooling

I know, I know... homeschooling and Brazilian waxing are not exactly terms that you would find sitting side-by-side in a thesaurus, and please pardon the comparison. And yet, that is EXACTLY the comparison I am about to use. Because as I thought about it, the reactions to the announcement that I was homeschooling my 6th grader were AWFULLY similar to when I said I got my 1st Brazilian wax.  Read more >

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Loralee
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Logan, Utah

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