Our News & Commentary editor, Valerie Bonham Moon, is a master blogger, and she has an entire collection of them on which she shares her keen perspective and her razor-sharp wit. For me, Valerie is the very definition of the word pundit.
My favorite Valerie-blog is Happy as Kings, and maybe I just like it best [...]
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Our long-time friend Jan Hunt, whose interview (by Mary Nix) appeared in our July/August issue, wrote recently to tell me they’ve added more bumper stickers to their selection, including these:
• Ask me about unschooling!
• If it matters to a child, it’s important!
• Life is the school – love is the lesson.
• Teaching interferes with learning. [...]
Susan Ryan’s Corn and Oil blog always gives me something to think about. On July 4th she posted some interesting comments about the history of our nation:
“As we munched on popcorn and cherries, we talked about the history of the 4th of July. And John Adams and Thomas Jefferson’s relationship and death on one [...]
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With great sadness I note the passing of an old friend, Dr. Raymond Moore, one of the true founding pioneers of the homeschooling movement. He was the co-author, with his wife Dorothy, of the very first book I ever read on homeschooling, Home Grown Kids. I have many wonderful memories of Dr. and Mrs. Moore, [...]
Shay Seaborne has had an essay on her blog, SynergyField, for several months now, titled A Homeschooler’s Changing Perspective on Authority Figures. She writes, “…this woman is trying to muster the courage to face the school division, because, as she stated, ‘these people intimidate me.’ I noted that, ‘It is common to feel intimidated by [...]
