Mark on March 10th, 2010

Stereotypes are easier to find than people looking for balance and understanding. From
Misty Krasawski’s article, 1 Corinthians 13 for Homeschool Moms:

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and my formal dining room gets turned into a schoolroom and our family vacations look more like educational fieldtrips, and if I surrender my [...]

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Susan on July 12th, 2009

A Missouri divorce case has been discussed at length within the homeschool blog community.    Dana at Principled Discovery has one discussion:
Homeschooling mother may be ordered to send children to public school
Today, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article about the situation.
Home-schooling at issue in St. Charles County divorce case
By Jessica Bock and Shane [...]

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Susan on July 6th, 2009

Many homeschoolers are on the watch for back door legislation or other attempts to limit our families’ freedoms. “Universal” anything often gives us a heads up. Politicians discuss the potential advantages. Interested lobbyists look to see what they can get out of the deal.
HSLDA (a homeschool member financed organization) often warns of [...]

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Susan on June 25th, 2009

I thought this article below was interesting, in that it came from business media in Dubai.  But the piece covered a Maryland homeschooling family, and the usual (not necessarily accurate) rendition of  modern homeschool history.
Homeschooling goes from fringe to mainstream in US
Emirates Business 24/7 – June 25, 2009
At the height of the hippy culture [...]

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Susan on June 25th, 2009

My daughter Sophia, the one who wears a princess dress to pick slugs out of the woodpile so she can feed them to the chickens, seemed content with Brian’s answer about meat. She was curious enough, too, to come out on the morning when Tom the butcher came to visit. We got an anatomy lesson [...]

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