Tag: homeschooling
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Do Homeschooled Kids Hate Their Moms?
Can you think of a teacher you disliked? Most people can, sometimes quite vehemently! Isn’t that likely to happen with mom if she is the teacher for every subject in every grade? Some critics of homeschooling think so, and I can see their reasoning. As much as I’d enjoy having my kids consistently think I’m…
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Top 3 Challenges in our Imperfect Homeschool
I like to keep it real. So today, let’s talk about the imperfectness of my homeschool… We are schedule challenged. Our days don’t start at a set time. (Actually, mine do now, but that’s because of the kindergartener in public school and a really early school bus.) That’s works just fine sometimes, but there are…
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Unschooling: What I’m Learning
During our recent vacation at the beach, I read Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gotto. Eye-opening stuff. I could write a whole series of posts on this book. I was one of the kids who did well in school; on the honor roll and all that. But that really just means I was good…
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Homeschool: unstructured and interest-led?
Our home education style is becoming less structured. I’ve been reading and thinking about how learning happens best, and what sort of things are most important to learn. I’m moving more and more towards learning that is less structured and more interest led. I’m not doing anything drastic like throwing out our curriculum, but we’re…
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Homeschool Curriculum Plans
As the years of homeschooling go by, I find myself becoming more relaxed in my style of home education because I’ve seen just how well it really does work. I still use curriculum, but I change it around to fit my needs; that’s a long way from my first year as a homeschooler, using a…