Helping You Turn Your Homeschool Challenges into Your Homeschool Charms
Let’s chat about John Holt & Pat Farenga’s book, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Home Schooling, and how it informs your homeschool life. John Holt wrote another small book, Why Children Fail, that revolutionized my approach to home education. You too? I’ve heard that I’m not the only one, so if you’ve…
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How have your first months of your homeschool life been? I want to hear all the deets. If you and I were hanging out in our zoom room, I’d ask you, what’s working for you, what’s not, what’s working for your kids, what’s not, and have you had any unexpected challenges along the way? I…
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The classical homeschool season looks like school in our homeschool. …In that, we have formal study hours and are expected to do stuff… Otherwise, what the stuff depends on who the kid is, what their goals are, and what our goals are for them too. The classical homeschool method looks different in each homeschool. How…
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Structuring a home education for a twelve-year-old? Your twelve-year-old and MY twelve-year-old aren’t the same. In fact, I’ve had four twelve-year-olds living in the same family and they aren’t the same either. So take my suggestions with a grain of salt, but gather your ideas for your twelve-year-old. You can’t teach each child the same…
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I went to a homeschool conference last spring, and I didn’t buy a thing. (Turns out I went with three guidelines for choosing curriculum.) So what does my lack of purchasing tell you about me? Therefore, I must be… a. No longer homeschooling. b. Already in possession of enough books to occupy a public school…
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What is an education anyway? Forget every notion you have been told of what an education constitutes. What do you think?
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