I run a Yahoo homeschooling group for my area of the state and I’m often helping to answer questions that newcomers have about how to get started and so forth. This week one of the moms who has been on the list for about a year emailed me to say that she did it, she [...]
People have talked about how homeschooled children are too sheltered and need to be “properly socialized”. The image that pops into my head when people say stuff like that is of this cartoon I saw on a homeschooling t-shirt which has three kids standing a bus stop waiting to go to school.
One of the kids [...]
Get your entries in for the 6th edition of the Country Fair homeschooling carnival. All the details are right here – it’s easy peasy, just send a link to one of your posts!
All the cool kids are doing it, you know you want to!
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My regular theme, Rounded, the one with the delicious chocolate background, has a technical issue right now. I’ve temporarily changed my theme to Thirteen, one of my other favorites, while Rounded gets fixed.
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Approach #1
When we first began homeschooling our daughter, we fell into the trap of “here’s what your child should be doing right now”. There are lots of manuals and guidebooks that give lists of what children should know by age 5, or what they should be learning in 2nd grade.
At first, I was happy to [...]
