Homeschooling High School - documenting learning and giving mommy-credits
In Texas, as a home educator, I have the freedom to decide what my children learn, what materials are used for learning, what time of the day or week that that learning takes place, and how and whether or not ...

Homeschool Confessions: Sleeping Late
Homeschool Confessions:  I find it very hard to get a regular schedule going here in my home because I am unemployed and so are my three children.  Well, I guess I am employed but it's a job that is completed ...

Co-oping Learning and Learning Communities
 One of my favorite memories while homeschooling my children was when a few homeschool families decided to start an informal Ancient World History Co-op.  Those families who were interested in the co-op were encouraged to purchase “The Story of the ...

The Color of Math (Thoughts on a seemingly silly question.)
Not all learning is black and white.  There is a rainbow full of hues (someone out there loves that word) that bleed into each other; primary secondary tertiary... I remember teaching my children colors.  “This ball is red, like Elmo ...

Kids R Cute
 On one of our few chilly nights I decided to get a fire going in the fireplace.  I told my six year old, who magically appears if I am holding a match or lighter, “Before electricity people didn’t have heaters and ...