Mrs. Linda Watkins:  Homeschool Conference Speaker and Workshop Leader Details

Homeschooling a Large Family Made Easy
With 20 plus years of experience in homeschooling a large family and lots of lessons learned the hard way. David and Linda will share many tricks of the trade and practical insights which they've learned that helped their family survive homeschooling. (With David Watkins)

Alphabet Soup
Remember Campbell's "Alphabet Soup"? Children have been making words on their plates for many years but while in the soup the letters just floated around in all different directions and never formed a word that made sense. This is similar to what it's like when families decide to educate at home, there are floating pieces all around but most still do not know how to put it altogether to spell "homeschool" clearly. Where should one start? What is it supposed to look like? Why is everything so jumbled up and not making sense? This workshop is designed to help sort it all out for a successful first day of homeschool.

Chronic Chaos Challenge
"If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." The ability to be organized, or lack of it, sets the mood in families. When families are disorganized they don't feel in control and when they don't feel in control, their stress level rises. Often stress is caused by disorganization and this alone can be the biggest enemy of our homeschool efforts. Organization has no room for procrastination. This workshop will give you some tricks of the trade to be more organized and to feel more organized. (There is a difference.) Come prepared to take home lots of encouraging ideas.

• Conference director of MÂCHÉ
• Homeschooling mother of eight