A number of years ago now, I met a lovely family while speaking at a homeschool conference. After several conversational exchanges, they propositioned me about supporting an initiative about which they were passionate. I honestly can’t remember the website at this point, but the premise was that every child should be homeschooled, in essence ending […]
At a time when scores of parents are making a decision about how to educate their children on next year, there is a certain beauty to the marketing of homeschooling as an option. I don’t just mean the corporate marketing; I mean the way that homeschool is marketed as a collective entity—parents, associations, curriculum publishers, […]
The youngest would say occasionally that “time flies on a jet plane.” No truer words have ever been spoken. We are now on our third round of college tours. In fact, we began taking the kids on college tours when they were much smaller; truth be told, they might not have even known entirely what […]
Each year at about this time, I write my heart about some aspect of Black history, given that you don’t see much in the homeschooling community about February as Black History month. This year, I have a particular concern. There is a wave of educational revision that threatens to wipe out much of what we […]
My MIL would often say that any time she delivered a powerful Bible study, the Lord would give her a chance to live it out on her own. I couldn’t help but think on her words after writing my last blog post. #15 of my “30 before 30” list was “write your schedules in pencil, […]