Helen on August 31st, 2009

Homeschooling mom and freelance writer Debbie Harbeson has produced a delightful free humor book, Okay Kids, Time For Bedlam, which can be downloaded or read free online by clicking the links at her site. Original cartoons by Thom Bluemel add visual fun as Debbie tells it like it is and keeps homeschooling grounded and fun! [...]

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Helen on August 27th, 2009

Everything, in homeschooling, connects; sometimes home education has a lot in common with “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” You know how it goes: you’re reading Aesop’s “The Grasshopper and the Ants” and somebody asks how grasshoppers are different from crickets; and in no time at all you’ve wandered off into how to determine the temperature [...]

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Helen on August 26th, 2009

Homeschooling mom and blogger Debbie Harbeson has been featuring interviews with homechooling parents to showcase the fun and freedom of homeschooling across the U.S., but on Monday she broadened her net to include Sybille Kramer, a homeschooling mom in Italy! Debbie writes:
“I met Sybille while on one of my twisting, turning trips on the internet [...]

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Helen on August 24th, 2009

Write These Laws On Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling, by Robert Kunzman, was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston, is reviewed by Illinois homeschooling mom Susan Ryan:
In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling mom related her [...]

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Helen on August 21st, 2009

Ann Lahrson Fisher is the author of Fundamentals of Homeschooling: Notes on Successful Family Living, a longtime homeschooling advocate, and a retired HEM columnist and News & Commentary blogger. Her publishing company website offers a wealth of information and resources, including this wonderful introduction to everything about homeschooling, which she calls Your Trusty Homeschool Emergency [...]

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Helen on August 19th, 2009

A delightfully affirming post by Tammy Takahashi, author of Deschooling Gently: A Step by Step Guide to Fearless Homeschooling, at the Life Without School blog:
“In many ways, I consider our family ‘normal.’ At first glance, we really don’t stand out as a homeschooling family. But, as with all homeschooling families, there are things that make [...]

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