"The Tebow Bill" and Local Homeschool Sports
Tim Tebow, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, was homeschooled while he was the star of his local public school football team. In Florida, where he played high school football, home-educated students are allowed to participate in public school activities. Some ...

Fibonacci Numbers, Triskaidekaphobia, and the Mayan Calendar
Yesterday, we watched a lecture from The Teaching Company’s “The Joy of Thinking” on the Fibonacci numbers. Fibonacci numbers, or nature’s numbers, are numbers that are created by adding together the two previous numbers in the series starting with 1 ...

Jump Start on New Year's Resolution
I thought that I had decided on a New Year's Resolution. A few family members and I had toyed with the idea of taking "The Vegan Challenge.” The Vegan Challenge is to eat vegan for a whole month. No meat. ...

Pinterest is social networking for people like me.
I’m not going to kid myself. Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc., have all allowed me to free my inner didactic narcissist. My favorite way to utilize sites like Facebook is to “share” links to the articles that ...

I need book suggestions for a ten year old boy.
The last three books I have started reading with my ten year old have all mysteriously disappeared. The Giver, things were getting ominous; Hatchet, the poor kid was starving; and The Whipping Boy, we were right where the prince and ...

“Breaking Dawn” (pro-life characters)
I told you all that I brined a turkey this Thanksgiving. I didn’t include that I drove my turkey, brine and all, to the Hill Country to enjoy Thanksgiving Dinner with a friend I met and have kept since we ...

I did something new for Thanksgiving this year.
A few years ago, I met an amazing homeschooling family. They had moved to Victoria from a northern state. You could tell that the mom wasn’t from around here because she had this innocence about her. She always smiled. It ...

SixthSense - Will pencil and paper be replaced by technology?
After reading "Goodbye to Cursive Writing?" I mused that pencil and paper would one day be a thing of the past, like the slate. Though we use as much technology as we can for school, we have devolved back to ...

School for Gamers – points instead of grades
“Is it ok if I try to get 500 points each day for school?” Imagine students moving through math lessons at their own pace by gaining points, leveling up, and receiving badges. That's pretty much the goal for students of ...

Body Piercings (speaking of dress codes)
On the way home from the Edna high school volleyball tournament yesterday, my daughter asked if she could get her bellybutton pierced. ::insert long pause for dramatic effect:: As I've bragged and taunted here every time the topic of the ...