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  • Rebecca  
    A Name is a Name
    I told you guys a few posts ago that my eight year old said he wanted to be God. He stated this while he was designing and building various structures using multi-color straws and masking tape. When I asked him ...
  • Rebecca  
    Greatest Birthday Gift EVER!
    Well, it’s my birthday today. I won’t tell you how old I am but I will share with you my eight year old’s guess. He guessed that I was fifty. When he saw the shocked look on my face he ...
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    Democratic schools and "drop-outs"
    I remember talking about democratic schools and free schools with someone years ago and they told me that those types of schools were a failure - end of conversation. Failure? To whom? To a section of our population a traditional ...
  • Rebecca  
    Eleven Years Ago
    It wasn't until a recent move that I found one of our learning journals from about eleven years ago - a three ring binder that contains some of the activities my now seventeen year old son did when he was ...
  • Rebecca  
    Multiplication Facts Review
    I preface everything with too much text so scroll down and click on the hyperlinks to check out some cool multiplication review sites. Recently, over on the homeschool discussion group, a mom shared that she had discovered why her son ...
  • Rebecca  
    The Freedom to Adapt
    I saw that someone had mentioned Alvin Toffler in a comment right here on this site. I commented something about how I liked his views on education reform and had miswritten the title of the article I had read. It ...
  • Rebecca  
    Eighteen Years!!
    As of today, I have been married for eighteen years! I mean, "my hubby and I have been married for eighteen years today." Funny how I forgot about him just then. I know what you are thinking, "What are you ...
  • Rebecca  
    A few free online educational resources
    Here are some sites that offer online courses for free: MIT Open Courseware Any subject you can imagine with lecture notes, videos... Free Education Online A list of online courses. National Repository of Online Courses List of AP, High School, ...
  • Rebecca  
    Alternative Methods and Homeschooling
    While we are here discussing the pros and cons of homeschooling there is an ongoing and revolutionary discussion taking place within a section of the homeschooling population. It involves how children learn and what methods are effective in transmitting knowledge. ...
  • Rebecca  
    The "S" Word
    I think "socialization" is a non issue in the pros/cons of the homeschooling discussion. Actually, I think all “concerns” are. But, I'll gripe about socialization anyway because my homeschooled children are currently bouncing a soccer ball down the hallway, visiting ...
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