Parent at the Helm (PATH), is a easy and fun way to get vital homeschooling information and homeschooling news you need for homeschooling and learning-at-home activities with your children. Veteran homeschooling mom, grandma, author, and a long-time HEM columnist, Linda Dobson welcomes aboard homeschoolers, after-schoolers, teachers, parents of the gifted, special needs, unmotivated, bored and [...]
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.
Gregory and Martine Millman, authors of Homeschooling: a Family’s Journey (Tarcher, 2008), wrote recently on their blog of the same name: “…We have always paid close attention to the relationship between homeschooling, economics, and lifestyle. The global financial crisis that began shortly after publication of our book led us attempt to identify the best places [...]
“The history of the homeschool movement is instructive, in its details and its broader lessons, for the national politics of today.”
Twenty years ago the publishers of Home Education Magazine produced a series of writings which outlined and explained changes which were happening within the then-still-new homeschooling movement. Homeschooling Freedoms at Risk includes writings by Mark [...]
An interesting post at ScienceBlogs by author and writer Jonah Lehrer takes a look at the dynamics of creative kids in the classroom: “Everybody wants a creative child – in theory. The reality of creativity, however, is a little more complicated, as creative thoughts tend to emerge when we’re distracted, daydreaming, disinhibited and not following [...]
“For a man to place himself in the home on a full-time basis turns cultural assumptions on their head, but for him to take on the task of full-time homeschooling forces him to re-evaluate his own assumptions.” – Jim Dunn
The topic of dads homeschooling their children full time is the subject of Jim Dunn’s inspiring [...]
One of our all-time favorite and most-requested articles ran in our January-February, 1995 issue. It was titled Revelations of a Homeschooling Mom, by Carol Wanagel, and it provided an eye-opening look at some discoveries Carol made about homeschooling. After more than 15 years, this article still answers many basic homeschool questions:
“Thirteen years ago when my [...]
HEM’s Questions & Answers for the July-August, 2010 issue:
How Do I Handle a Child Who Won’t Work On Her Own?
My older daughter [now in college] was easy to homeschool because she was independent and liked to read on her own. This freed me up to pursue my own interests.
My youngest daughter is the complete opposite, [...]
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