There is a common misconception out their that homeschoolers spend their days sitting in their homes with one of their parents doing workbooks and literally schooling at home. I’m sure that they are out there those who subscribe to this extreme version of homeschooling and bring the classroom home but have yet to meet anyone doing this. The…
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5 Great Resources for Printable Homeschooling Materials.
As I’ve talked about on here before we tend to be fairly unstructured and lean more toward the unschooling, life learning side of things but we do have binders set aside for when our kids are interested in doing some workbooks or worksheets. They love this type of activity so it’s usually never a struggle….
Can Home-schooled Kids be “Successful”?
Image via Wikipedia What do Julian Assange, The Jonas Brothers and Condoleezza Rice all have in common? They were all home-schooled. For quite some time I have been looking for a list of successful contemporary homeschoolers and The World’s 15 Most Extraordinary Homeschoolers fits the bill. This list includes others that have worked on the human genome project, excelled at professional…
5 Life Lessons Learned from Homeschooling
I was thinking today about our homeschooling journey and how much I personally have learned from the experience so here are 5 life lessons that I have learned from homeschooling. Worrying is useless and gets you nowhere. I used to, and still do somewhat, worry about the path I’m taking my girls down but I try to…
Friday Finds – Free Reading Resources for Homeschooling
I am always on the lookout for good reading resources for my kids. In fact I’m always on the lookout for free high quality learning materials of any kind to use with my kids. This week I found some great ones, in addition to the free educational materials from NASA that I posted earlier this…
Free Homeschooling Materials from Nasa
Image: amnh.org Not all homechoolers realize that many of the educational resources that are out there for teachers are also available to homeschoolers. A while back NASA and the American Museum of Natural History were giving away free copies of the Journey to the Stars DVD and educator guide to teachers so I signed up to get…
VOTE!
Photo by farlane Don’t forget to get out there today and cast your vote! If you’re not sure where to go check out Vote411.org’s polling place finder. Still need some last minute info on candidates? Check out SmartVoter.org for information on candidates in your area. The Democracy Project (from 2008 but still mostly relevant) at pbskids.org has…
The Kids Aren’t All Right. ‘Race to Nowhere’ – Movie Review
Race to Nowhere exposes the dark side of America’s achievement culture and its harmful effects on our children. I had an opportunity to attend a screening of this film this week. Overall it was a sad tale of the stress and overwhelming pressure today’s youth is under. It exposes a school system in which neither educators nor students are truly thriving but just getting by, or…
Homeschooling and Socialization
[ad name=”Above Content”] I was recently asked by a mom considering homeschooling about socialization and she was concerned that her kids would be missing out on social experiences if they weren’t in school. There is a common misconception that homeschoolers are unsocialized and don’t know how to interact with others and their peers since. It’s…
How to (Not) Worry About Homeschooling
[ad name=”Above Content”] As a family we definitely have a more unschooling bend to us and my husband and I are really free form with the girls education. That being said our girls LOVE workbooks and so do we. I attribute this to the fact that no one has ever told them that workbooks aren’t…