Parents have a lot of reasons not to homeschool, but how valid are they?
If you aren`t sure what a podcast is, it`s essentially an online radio show. While you can listen to them live, they are also available for download and you can then listen to the show at your leisure. I personally like to listen to podcasts while I do a more mundane task like folding laundry [...]
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
One of the things I appreciate the most about homeschooling is the [...]
It isn`t always math and writing that are the only important subjects to be found in a homeschool. This does depend on the family, since there are some parents who tend to focus almost exclusively on this, however, my personal view of homeschooling is that it is a method of preparing our children for life.
What [...]
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As a Physics major with a Mathematics minor, I have a few opinions about math. I enjoyed math and thought it was a cool puzzle to work through a problem to arrive at the solution. But for many children (and their homeschooling parents) math is not their “favorite subject.”
I came across this article (note, it’s [...]
If you’ve been in the homeschooling community for long, you’ll notice that many homeschooling families are larger than average; often much larger. Parenting that many children may seem an overwhelming task to many, but homeschooling them seems inconceivable. Homeschool multiple children is all in the planning and curriculum choice.
Curriculum Choice
I have a friend who is [...]
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Are you the homeschool mom who looks a little tired, worn out and stressed. Or perhaps you have lost your zest and zeal for the calling you were 100% sure was from God in August, but now it’s January and you’re looking longingly at the yellow school bus going down the road and second guessing [...]
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One of the best reasons, parent-wise, to school your children at home is the fact that you are going to be able to forge bonds that last a lifetime.
We are all too familiar with the concept of teens . . . angry, self-loathing adolescents who rebel in any way they can. We hear about their [...]
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Paranoia is not a good reason to do anything, let alone to embark on the journey of homeschooling. However, there are plenty of reasons to be concerned about sending your children off to public school, and even to a christian school these days.
For the sake of this post, we’ll categorize the different types of safety [...]
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