How do you homeschool with multiple ages of children in the house? How do you spend time with each one? I’ve seen this question a lot in the Homeschool Lounge recently, and I thought that, since this is the time of year when several parents pull their children out of traditional schools in the attempt […]
Cautiously Optimistic
This is a rare, quiet moment in the house with everyone still sleeping except me and the oldest—she’s 20 minutes into her morning beauty regimen. I’m sure the smells of breakfast—blueberry muffins and turkey sausage—will get everyone stirring momentarily. I woke up with other things to do this morning, but I couldn’t resist penning my […]
Colleges and Homeschoolers: Meeting the Expectations of Others
I saw this blurb from a Yahoo loop. A homeschooling parent who is closer to a college decision copied some passages from Stanford University’s homeschooling policy (quotations mine): In particular, we would like to hear [in your application] about…what, if any, choices you had to make to accomplish “this type” of education. With “ […]
Learning from the Kids
I had such fun reading the responses over the kids’ homeschool “couture”. The crazy thing is that I actually almost stopped them from wearing their outlandish outfits once. We visited with another homeschooling family, who made a weekly practice of taking school on the road. It sounded like a great idea, so I tried it […]
Though I consider myself a morning person, I don’t “spring forward” easily. Sunday morning came early, and I fantasized taking the head off of one of the kids in our Sunday School class. I was perhaps even more tired than he was, and when he voiced his displeasure about having to sit through another […]