Jeanne Faulconer on October 2nd, 2009

Submissions to Home Education Magazine are wide ranging. Most of our content is generated by homeschooling parents, but we also get articles from non-homeschoolers. The article ”Using Writing Contests” by Thursday Bram, a non-homeschooling writer, is coming up in our November-December issue.
Most submissions by non-homeschooling writers don’t get published, usually because the articles don’t reflect an understanding of the ways home education differs [...]

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Jeanne Faulconer on August 7th, 2009

A website where “highly distractible people are celebrated, encouraged, and empowered?” That would be Sizzle Bop! Homeschool mom, author, and speaker Carol Barnier has put together some respectful and entertaining stories about kids who sizzle and bop:
That is a part of their wonderfulness…and also a part of the challenge in sharing daily life with them. That sizzle can [...]

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Jeanne Faulconer on August 2nd, 2009

Lissa has posted the Summer Carnival of Children’s Literature over at The Bonny Glen. Those of you who include book reviews on your blogs may be especially interested in her first category, which includes some posts about how the FTC is looking at bloggers who review books and other products when financial or other incentives [...]

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Helen on July 26th, 2009

Home Education Magazine publisher Helen Hegener shares information about Lenore Skenazy’s weblog and book on Free-Range Kids, which explores the concept of how, “Somehow, a whole lot of parents are just convinced that nothing outside the home is safe. At the same time, they’re also convinced that their children are helpless to fend for themselves. While most of these parents walked to school as kids, or hiked the woods — or even took public transportation — they can’t imagine their own offspring doing the same thing. They have lost confidence in everything: Their neighborhood. Their kids. And their own ability to teach their children how to get by in the world.”

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Helen on May 14th, 2009

Lenore Skenazy’s “Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry” (2009, Jossey-Bass), is a down-to-earth and common sense book about how to raise confident children by simply saying no to paranoid parenting, and just letting kids be kids, without invoking the harum-scarum fear tactics which have become commonplace in too many young lives today.

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