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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...