“When our kids were younger, Ken and I had a long discussion that really boiled down to this question: Where do you want the sandbox?
“It was a serious question. We were already making lots of choices that set us apart, what with home births and extended breast feeding — and now that our babies were [...]
Arithmetic, computation or mathematics … no matter what it’s called in school, the subject often adds up in a child’s mind as plain old boring. Kindergarten worksheets display clusters of objects for children to color and count. By third or fourth grade word problems sneak into the curriculum. I don’t know about you, but when [...]
Keith Wilcox is Almighty Dad. His blog says so. Indisputably. And he had me at this sentence: “All the money in the world cannot hold a candle to enjoying time with my kids.”
Keith has a sense of humor and he’s not afraid to brandish it, but he also has a sense of what’s important, [...]
“Homeschooling lifts a burden from schools and taxpayers. Whether we bond or not, the schools and the legislature should be encouraging parents to become self-reliant in the education of their children.
If elementary schools are going to experience 16% growth in the next five years, that need could be met if 16 children out of every [...]
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Dear Mom, Do you remember this? A tiny girl sits, a little speck enveloped in the giant, red living room sofa. Tears stream down her chubby little cheeks. “I just can’t read anymore, Mom! It doesn’t make any sense,” I say, dropping the white list of phonetic words on the floor–rat, cat, bat, mat, sat–as [...]
On the HEM Networking discussion group, longtime advocate and Texas homeschooling mom Susan Smylie, who was interviewed for HEM in 2007, shared a reference to homeschooling from an unexpected source. On Monday, Susan wrote to others on the HEM Networking group:
Dean Koontz is apparently a fan of homeschooling (I don’t think he has kids–not [...]
