Encouraging Single-Parent Home Educators
Monday, 30 April 2012
The face of homeschooling is changing. As long-term benefits of homeschooling are visible and documented, more people are pursuing this educational choice. No longer is there one common picture of a “typical” homeschooling family. Grandparents home educate today And the number of single parents who homeschool is increasing. Does that surprise you? Do you wonder
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Dealing with "Negative Nellie"
Monday, 30 April 2012
Dealing with negative family members is kind of a given when you homeschool. I mean, who doesn’t have an “Aunt Nellie,” who, at every Christmas gathering, asks, “So how much longer are you going to homeschool? You certainly aren’t going to do it in high school , are you?” Now you could pray that God
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Climbing Mt. Homeschooling
Monday, 30 April 2012
I was discouraged about the progress of our homeschooling recently. I dumped my tale of woe to my dear husband (over a Starbucks, of course.). “Nothing seems to be going as planned,” I lamented. “How did I ever think I could teach one child how to figure out the area of a circle, while training
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The Bible as the Main Textbook
Monday, 30 April 2012
Quotations that come to mind first are not from homeschoolers, but, instead, are ones that I would like to direct to homeschoolers, especially Christian homeschoolers who believe the Bible is the main textbook on which to raise children. Northrop Frye, a famous literature professor in Toronto wrote that the Bible . . . .
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