If you do a search for the word ‘homeschooling’ at the online bookselling giant Amazon, the top result is Linda Dobson’s The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12 (paperback, 360 pages, Three Rivers Press 2002). You can read pages from the book online, and as one [...]
If you’re in California this weekend – or planning to be – check out the terrific lineup of speakers at the 2009 Homeschool Association of California conference: “Finding Our Balance”! The HSC Conference is renowned for being many conferences in one and features a full slate of diverse activities for adults, teens, and all ages [...]
“Children need more of their fathers and fathers need more of their children. Men have an extraordinary potential to realize in the lives of their kids, a potential that goes beyond narrowly defined gender roles that limit a father’s station in the family to that of “provider and disciplinarian.”As I consider my own life, and [...]
Kyoko Aizawa of Otherwise Japan writes to inform us about a concern in her country with this article from The Japan Times:
“The number of NEETs (people Not in Employment, Education or Training) now totals 640,000 people in Japan, according to a government white paper released in July. At the current rate of increase, NEETs [...]
“I confess! I’m guilty! I use… dare I say it aloud? Workbooks. The word has been blacklisted by homeschoolers, unschoolers and school-at-homers alike for years. In fact, if you’re ever at a gathering of people whose children aren’t in school it’s a good ice breaker. How about those workbooks, huh? Glad we don’t have to [...]
Home Education Magazine Articles Editor Jeanne Faulconer, who works from her home in Virginia, where she and her husband homeschool their sons, shares a few of the endless details a magazine editor needs to know about word useage, copyright and trademark laws, specific capitalizations and pluralizations for copyrighted and trademarked terms, etc.:
“Among today’s discoveries and [...]
