October 25th, 2008 at 6:21pm |
Yes. I made that last word up. Do you like it? Here. I’ll even provide a definition for my newly created lexiconic invention. Biophyschemophobia: A pervasive fear of teaching, studying, reading about or exploring in any manner any material remotely related to the complex fields of biology, chemistry and physics or any combination thereof. A condition occasionally affecting homeschool parents and […]
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October 15th, 2008 at 9:31pm |
Not homeschooling in general, but the form in which you’ve been doing it. You children wake up on an ordinary Tuesday morning and suddenly what was working before now produces fights and tears, power struggles and anything but passionate learning. This is one of the beautiful elements of homeschooling. Your children (and their teacher) do […]
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September 28th, 2008 at 9:19am |
I often hear or overhear recently inducted homeschooling parents bemoaning the fact that they are falling behind, are behind schedule, or some other variation on the same concept. Now I suspect that while the unschoolers find this idea utterly riddiculous, there are many more homeschoolers who find themselves feeling this way than I have even come […]
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August 20th, 2008 at 9:56pm |
Recently, the question of whether or not to carve out dedicated space for a classroom in the home of a homeschooling family has crossed my field of observation in multiple places at once. This is most likely a result of the inevitable “Back to School” type topics that are floating through disscussion boards, email lists and […]
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July 10th, 2008 at 12:48am |
As Athena and I begin to establish an educational rhythm this summer, I find this schooling cycle evolving on its own in a very organic process. Classical home education is becoming extremely popular. A recent thread on a parenting discussion board revealed a higher number of classically rooted homeschooling families than I would have anticipated. […]
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April 20th, 2008 at 3:33pm |
For all my rhetoric, there is one reason I have such a fiery passion for homeschooling that I rarely mention in most conversations on the topic. I usually only share it with other homeschooling parents who express that they too harbor the same sweet secret. As I continue to construct our 2008-09 biology curriculum from […]
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February 6th, 2008 at 2:45pm |
I remember when Kindy Girl began really chasing new knowledge. It was exhillarating for both of us. She would root out new discoveries and devour new information with reckless abandon. I would delight in presenting each new topic and watching the experience unfold. Lost in the mire of a year and a half of diapering and […]
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December 30th, 2007 at 8:28pm |
From a recent service at the Unitarian Universalist church we are currently attending came the inspiration and motivation I have been grasping for as I struggle to get us organized for another semester of learning.
Let us bring up our children. It is not the place of some official to hand them their heritage. If others […]
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November 10th, 2007 at 9:53am |
Kindy Girl is a gifted child. I have no doubts about this at all. So why do I stumble over admitting this to others? Family, friends, fellow homeschoolers, heck, I even choke on the words when talking with Big Daddy about this particular issue. As I type this entry, I am struggling to resist the […]
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