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If you're a homeschool mama with a little one between 3 and 5, I want to talk you off a ledge I stood on myself: the urge to start "real" schooling way too soon. I get it. You've been dreaming about homeschooling. You've got the Pinterest boards. You watch the moms online with their color-coded curriculum binders and you feel that itch — shouldn't we be doing something? Here's what I've learned with my two kids, a seven-year-old and a three-year-old, plus a genuinely embarras

If you homeschool, you know the feeling: the lesson plan says "quiet reading time," but everyone's restless, the baby's fussy, and what the day actually needs is five minutes at the park. This is the case for why a deck of cards belongs in your bag, your glovebox, and your diaper bag at all times. No time to read now? Click here to jump straight to the list of games. Sometimes the best "curriculum" is a deck of cards you can pull out at a picnic table, in a waiting room, or o