HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010
“Our oldest daughter is stubborn and acts lazy even though she’s smart. She’s the reason we got into homeschooling in the first place after a lot of difficulty in school. And it was much better for awhile but now that she’s close to 13 she’s worse than ever. She wants to sleep half the day, ignore her coursework and give a million rationalizations why everything should go her way. My husband has started saying she’s a bad influence on her sisters. I need help!” – Jessica, Allysa and Devon’s Mom
Your responses must meet our deadline of March 15th, 2010. Please recognize that your submission may be edited for length or clarity. Indicate how you prefer your question or answer signed.
HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010
“The financial meltdown has caused my daughter (11) to panic and hoard every penny but caused my son (14) to figure there’s no use saving and just spend anything he gets. Any time I explain economics it makes it worse. Any ideas?” – unemployed in Pittsburgh
Your responses must meet our deadline of March 15th, 2010. Please recognize that your submission may be edited for length or clarity. Indicate how you prefer your question or answer signed.
Tags: economics, HEM Questions and Answers, tough economic times
Back issues of Home Education Magazine are available individually or in annual sets for the last ten years, from 2000 through 2009, but further back in our 27 year publishing history the available issues start getting a little thinner, and some issues can no longer be ordered. Only single issues are available for 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997, and 1996-1989, but there’s some wonderful reading in these old magazines, and the history of the homeschooling movement is recorded within their pages.
The publishers, columnists, and writers of Home Education Magazine have been on the cutting edge of homeschooling since 1984. HEM was the first bona fide magazine for homeschoolers; the first magazine which didn’t start out as a newsletter, but launched full-scale as a new kind of publication supporting homeschooling families and the homeschool movement. Reading through the back issues from the 1980’s and 1990’s is like opening a window to homeschooling’s past, and the perspective offered in the pages of these old magazines holds value even for today’s homeschooling families.
We’re featuring our annual HEM Back Issue Sale right now, and it’s a great time to stock up on some of the best homeschool reading to be found anywhere, written by the people who helped shape the homeschooling movement!
Tags: Amy Hollingsworth, Becky Rupp, Cafi Cohen, Carol Narigon, curricula, curriculum, David Albert, Earl Gary Stevens, Good Stuff, Helen Hegener, HEM, history of homeschooling, home education, Home Education Magazine, homeschool, homeschooling, homeschooling families, homeschooling freedoms, homeschooling history, homeschooling laws, homeschooling resources, Jeff Kelety, John Taylor Gatto, Kathleen Creech, Kathleen McCurdy, Kim O'Hara, Larry and Susan Kaseman, Laura Weldon, Linda Dobson, Mark Hegener, Mary Nix, Pat Montgomery, Patrick Farenga, reasons to homeschool, Rebecca Rupp, Tamra Orr, unschooling, Valerie Bonham Moon
There’s a new feature on this page, the HEM Facebook fan page – check it out in the middle column, under Around the Site.
Home Education Magazine was one of the earliest homeschool companies on the Internet, going online in 1997. Beginning with one of the very first Internet forums, HEM has contributed immeasurable support to the growth and development of the greater online homeschooling community. Today HEM continues to support, advocate, and advance homeschooling through the newest technological media such as Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking tools.
Tags: Facebook, HEM, HEM on Facebook, HEM on Twitter, Home Education Magazine, homeschool resources, homeschooling, homeschooling resources, social networking, Twitter
HEM columnist Laura Weldon shares a beautifully-written post about an interview from a recent issue. In Calling Out the Buccaneer-Scholars she writes:
I’ve been ruminating every which way about buccaneer living ever since reading a remarkable interview in Home Education Magazine between publisher Helen Hegener and James Marcus Bach. Bach, an internationally recognized expert in software testing, recently authored the book Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success.
The interview with James Marcus Bach can be read online, but I highly recommend reading Laura’s post first, for a bit of perspective on why the message James shares is so important.
Tags: books about homeschooling, Buccaneer Scholar, Home Education Magazine, homeschool resources, homeschooled teens, homeschooling, homeschooling dads, homeschooling families, homeschooling resources, intellectual buccaneering, James Marcus Bach, Laura Grace Weldon, reasons to homeschool, Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, unschooling
Okay, it is not true, but it has been an ‘inside’ joke for years at HEM. I ran across the headline just yesterday while adding a number of older issues from 1996-1989 to our Back Issue Sale.
Reading through those issues is a glimpse at the history of our homeschooling community both politically, and in our community’s exploration of family, kids and learning. But here is the history of the headline.
Chuck Trapkus/93
It came from the January-February 1990 issue. We were working with illustrator Chuck Trapkus. This was still a time of mock-ups, separations and camera ready copy. Chuck had been struggling with the layout challenge of the word “homeschooling” in article titles. The cover mock-up for the issue arrived and, there it was, emblazoned in Chuck’s sketched font, “Homeschool Alien Births Elvis Clone.” It was then, and still is now a good reminder to not take ourselves too seriously.
Chuck’s self portrait ran in our Tenth Anniversary issue, November-December/93, and is the only illustration Chuck signed. (I promised this illustration to his children but have lost track of the contact.)
Tags: Chuck Trapkus, HEM Back Issues, Home Education Magazine, homeschooling, homeschooling history
