The end of my first year of homeschooling was a wonderful and frustrating experience. My dear daughter had learned wonderfully growing in manners, physical abilities, and math. However she did not grow in reading. I was stumped. Why?
Dianne talks about a topic that is often kept a secret. What do you do when your kids are driving you nuts? Learn how to manage passive-aggressive behavior.
So how do we teach children to write without dominating their work? Learning how to homeschool well means tackling this prickly problem.
A couple of years ago, while engaged in a conversation with a fellow homeschooler, I made a fairly extreme declaration: “I would never send my children to public school.”
Recently, I attended one of the annual homeschool conferences that I always attend. In the last several years, it has been impossible not to notice a changing “typical homeschooler.”
Have you ever tried to define homeschooling? A homeschool is where parents teach their children at home instead of sending them to public or private school.
Most parents do not take the decision to homeschool their children lightly. A lot of time, effort and research is put into this important decision, as well as discussions with other family members and often the child themselves. Even after you have decided that homeschooling is for you and your family, you may find yourself now asking “What now?”
For thousands of years children have grown up in what today would be considered an unnatural place: their own homes.
For Mother’s Day, I wanted to write an article honoring the homeschooling mom; but how do I do that without sounding trite or using all the common clichés?
It’s the thing that no one likes to talk about, the dirty little secret that plagues a good number of us homeschoolers. We don’t dare say it out loud to the “You’re Not Qualified to Teach” crowd, in fact you’ve been avoiding those people for some time now.
