The memory grows more worn with time and years of experience under my belt, but I still remember the early days of homeschooling, when I felt a little bit like a deer in headlights, thinking to myself sometimes, "Whoa! How did I get here?" Because you have to understand … [Read more...]
5 Reasons You Should Go to a Homeschool Convention
There's no question about it: you can have a happy, fully successful homeschool year without ever attending a homeschooling convention. You can provide your children with a solid education and be a positive, focused, contented homeschooling mom or dad, all without ever setting one foot into a … [Read more...]
How to Prep for a Homeschool Convention
Finally, homeschool convention season is here! If you don't homeschool then of course that means nothing to you. And if you do homeschool and you've never considered attending a convention, it may still mean nothing to you. But homeschool conventions are like a lifeline for me. I go to … [Read more...]
My 4 Favorite Books About Homeschooling (Plus Some Honorable Mentions)
The moment I began considering homeschooling, I immediately started reading everything I could get my hands on on the subject. I poured over homeschooling websites and blogs and read every single homeschooling book available at our local library. I still love reading about … [Read more...]
The Road that Led to Homeschool: Where I Failed At Homeschooling
(I wasn't entirely new to homeschooling even when I wrote this, but I was still in wonder of the things that had brought me to that educational choice. Now about to start our 9th year of homeschooling, the 'wonder' is mostly gone, but I'm more delighted now than ever to have taken this … [Read more...]
The Road that Led To Homeschool: Four Reasons Why I Didn’t Want to Homeschool
(This one was originally part of a series that, when I wrote it, was more or less half personal diary and half 'homeschooling manifesto'. The things I wrote back then still ring true in my heart and mind today. And while my blog is still unassumingly small, it has … [Read more...]
The Road that Led to Homeschool: Why Public School Just Wasn’t an Option for Us
(This is an old post of mine written back in the days when I blogged because I needed a writing outlet, mostly just to clear my head from time to time. I decided to rename and share it again, first of all, because I'm taking a very temporary hiatus from blogging, but also … [Read more...]
The Biggest Obstacle To You Homeschooling Your Kids
It's not 1977 anymore. Attitudes toward homeschooling are not what they once were and though, yes, there are still people out there who look upon homeschoolers with serious suspicion, doubters like that are becoming fewer and farther between. The negative attitudes toward homeschooling that … [Read more...]
6 Ways I’m Rewarded for Homeschooling
We are a homeschooling family and WE LOVE IT! We believe in the rightness of it and in the educational advantage of it. And give us half a chance and we'll be trying to convince you to homeschool, too! But that said, I never want a prospective homeschooler looking at home education … [Read more...]
