The March-April, 2010 issue of Home Education Magazine features Mary Nix interviewing her youngest son, Jake, home from college on his first year living away from home. Jake tells us homeschooling, and more specifically interest based learning, helped him to realize that his education was his own responsibility: “Following my own interests from a young [...]
During the past 20 years, increasing numbers of families have decided to pursue homeschooling as their educational option of choice. Here are some articles to help navigate through the various topics associated with homeschooling, including: the benefits of homeschooling, homeschooling methods, homeschooling curriculum, and homeschooling resources. Read and enjoy. Feedback is always welcome. Let us know if there is an area you'd like us to cover.
This Scouting Magazine article is a pleasant surprise.
Plug Into the Network
Why hooking up with the homeschooled can boost your pack.
Homeschool families can make a great addition to many packs because they’re child-focused, contain involved parents, and often share many of Cub Scouting’s core values. How can you connect with homeschool families in your community? Read [...]
In a blog post titled Children Teach Themselves to Read for the respected journal Psychology Today, author Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology at Boston College who has published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology, explains the various approaches to teaching children to read. He revisits the age-old “reading wars” between phonics [...]
“I have read many books about homeschooling, unschooling, the perils of early academic education and how children are hurried and forced to grow up too soon while being deprived of knowing and savoring the richness and specialness of childhood, how stressed out today’s kids are, Howard Gardner’s theory of the seven intelligences humans possess and [...]
Homeschooling father and essayist Earl Gary Stevens wrote with rare common sense when he advised, “Whatever our individual circumstances, whether or not we have children in schools, we must still be able to express our misgivings about schooling in general and to offer support and encouragement for those who are searching for a way out. [...]
HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010
“Our oldest daughter is stubborn and acts lazy even though she’s smart. She’s the reason we got into homeschooling in the first place after a lot of difficulty in school. And it was much better for awhile but now that she’s close to 13 she’s worse than ever. She [...]
HEM’s Questions & Answers – May-June 2010
“The financial meltdown has caused my daughter (11) to panic and hoard every penny but caused my son (14) to figure there’s no use saving and just spend anything he gets. Any time I explain economics it makes it worse. Any ideas?” – unemployed in Pittsburgh
Your responses must meet [...]
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