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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.”

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 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.

So have you been thinking about the purpose and value of learning assessments? I thought that I would allow some time for our ideas to percolate before continuing the discussion that I began in a previous article. I have been contemplating this topic a lot, especially this past week as I prepared report cards for some of my students.

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