Home Schooling

Homeschooling High School

I
honestly never considered homeschooling my teenage son. He had always
been in the public school system, liked it there socially, and wanted
to stay there. When it came to learning though, he could have cared
less and showed no interest at all.

 

Loving To Learn Again

My
daughter, Chelle, was a public school student up until the fourth
grade. There were times before that when we had problems with teachers,
but it was her fourth grade year that finally made me realize that I
needed to stand up for her more. That is the year I watched my usually
sweet, happy child turn into a depressed and moody bundle of nerves.
She would often come home from school crying and constantly talked
about how stupid she was. Each time when I would try to find out what

My Personal Homeschooling FAQ

People often ask the same questions when they find out we are homeschooling. Here is my personal homeschooling FAQ.

Will you homeschool all the way through school, until they are "graduated" from high school?
I figure I will help them learn outside of school until they are in
their teens and want to take classes that a community college could
teach better than I could. I figure they’ll take some classes there,
get a feel for the institution of school, and decide what they want to
do after that. GED? Fine. Tech school? Fine. College? Fine. Apprentice?

Marking Time: A Family Creates Ritual

This weekend marked an occasion
that brought me almost to tears. Tears of joy for certain, but tears
all the same. My daughter stood on the cusp of beginning first grade.
Truly a new world, a new journey, her own life opening before her. And
yet it almost passed by unnoticed. You see, because we homeschool we
didn’t have a need to participate in any of the few remaining rituals
of this milestone. In this day, somehow shopping and buying have become
substitutes for true cultural ritual. She needed no new special clothes

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