Playing It By Ear sure has been giving me lots of stuff to expand on lately! In one of her older posts she discussed the differences between extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. It got me to thinking about my own personal, inner reasons for homeschooling.
I’ve given many explanations for why we homeschool, like giving the kids […]
What happens when you’ve reached a point in your life when something isn’t making sense anymore, but you don’t know how to do things differently? What if you haven’t been exposed to alternatives? How can you make changes?
I compare this to seeing colors. If all you’ve ever been aware of is the color green, if […]
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 […]
This is the second part of a two-post series, a critical commentary of the article, “Sorry, But My Kids Bore Me To Death!” by Helen Kirwan-Taylor. In this post I highlight and discuss what I found disagreeable. In Part One I discussed a few points on which I concur with the author.
Despite the fact that […]
I came across an article on Daily Mail that made me pause. Written by Helen Kirwan-Taylor, a 42-year-old writer from London, the article, entitled Sorry, But My Children Bore Me To Death!, condones motherhood as a stifling boring, depressing task. The author concludes that it should be avoid if at all possible, even if you’re […]
