The timeline is a useful tool for tying together learning in a living education. We spend time each week adding to our timeline cards, and I regularly work on a personal timeline.

Here are a few favorite timeline resources.

🕰️The Peaceful Press Timeline Cards-These cards include dates and names of people you will learn about in the Peaceful Press resources. As you read about people and events, take time each week to fill out a few cards and then hang them on your chalkboard or save them in a timeline notebook. We have a set for each of our history cycles and they are only $5 each.

🕰️The Century Chart-We include a Century Chart in the Kind Kingdom resource, but it's essentially a grid with 100 squares and you add information for each year in a century. It could be small notes, pictures of inventions, or people, or even events in your own life over the course of a century.

🕰️Wall Chart of World History-this is a fascinating book that folds out to display history beginning with creation.

🕰️The Personal Timeline-While the timeline can be a useful tool in your homeschool, it can also serve as a helpful guideline for your own life journey. When you make a timeline of the events of your life, both good and bad, you can begin to process them, grieve and forgive as needed, and then experience more joy. It would be a sweet activity to do with your children because as you share your stories, they make more sense of theirs. Teaching them to timeline their own lives will help them develop more self awareness as well.

🕰️The Trauma Egg-This is just an undated version of a personal timeline that therapists use to help people identify stuck places. As you list the places where cracks were initiated in your own life, it can help identify fears and other limiting beliefs about yourself and others. Parents could use it on their own, but teaching children to identify these stuck places and then expressing remorse and empathy for the ways you have contributed to those beliefs can bring comfort to our children and empower them towards a healthier inner life.