Recently, my family and I were driving home after a birthday dinner at a neighborhood restaurant. As we drove home, I listened to my 3 kids in the backseat. They were joyfully discussing math – even the kid who claims to hate it! As we drove they continued discussing math…
This project was not just a fun exercise or a way to fill my children’s day. These projects build fine motor skills, math and reading skills related to reading a recipe for readers, and the ability to follow directions. Most of all, activities like this help my children explore the creative process in a way that allows for mess and mistakes.
I am unschooling my children. Unschooling is defined by people in different ways. Some may look at this blog and gasp at how I can use that word to describe our educational philosophy. It is true though. I define unschooling as natural child-led learning. This is found from the first…
Last school year we made a major change. We moved during the school year from Ontario, Canada to California. We started out homeschooling when we lived in Michigan way back in 2007. We had been living in Ontario since 2008! Last March we packed up a rental van with necessary…
I love homeschooling and the memories it has brought to my family. When this topic came up for the blog hop, I thought it would be good to hear it from a teen who has been homeschooled from the beginning. My son volunteered to write about his favorite homeschool memories:…
I was recently asked about homeschooling and social skills by someone who wasn’t familiar with homeschooling. Of course, the suggestion that a school shooting was perpetrated by a homeschooler was mentioned, lol. If you have been homeschooling awhile, I’m sure you have fielded the question many times. It was in…
Go for the gleam in the eye. In education, we often end to focus on what concepts our kids are learning or not learning. It is important to remember that leaning happens best when the child is interested. Think about it. Don’t you remember more when you are interested in…
Homeschooling gives power to the parent. Parents are really pretty knowledgeable creatures, after all. They know their kids inside and out and start from a position of love. That is a huge advantage when it comes to schooling. Sending a child to the local school takes power out of the…
What do you want to be when you grow up? Kids get asked that question all the time. It is a reasonable question for an adult to ask in our society. My art-loving daughter who loves to draw was recently asked if she wanted to be an artist when she…
Can I as a homeschooling parent really teach every subject well? Doubters of homeschooling often question whether or not parents can provide an appropriate education. I think this very question demonstrates a misunderstanding of how homeschooling works. I can’t teach every subject well. That is rather impossible. My job isn’t…
