1) Spunky started a blog section in a homeschool wiki. Don’t know what all that means at the moment, but Scott gives directions on how to add yours.
2) While you are doing that, and if you do indeed blog about homeschooling, consider joining the Truth Laid Bear homeschool community page. All [...]
Dutch is interesting, but German is more fun, since my reading of it doesn’t require near the same level of concentration. And I don’t have to look up words. So here’s a little overview of homeschooling in Germany…ending with the recent case of the Bauer family whose case seems to have come to [...]
Yesterday, I took a little field trip to Belgium to finally join the discussion about Paul Belien after long consideration of whether I indeed had anything new to offer. Wading through that much Dutch was kind of fun, but time consuming and tedious.
Today, I, stumbled accross an interesting letter to the editor which [...]
My actual post for today is here. It’s my personal take on the whole fiasco with this thing with homeschooling in Belgium. But here is a listing of things I need to get to:
1) I’m hosting the Carnival of Kid Comedy this week. Please find some humor in your munchkins and forward it [...]
I’ve been following a little of the discussion regarding Paul Belien being interrogated by the authorities in Belgium. Apparently, homeschoolers in Belgium, inspired by the UN’s Convention of the Rights of the Child, must agree to educate “respecting the respect [sic] for the fundamental human rights and the cultural values of the child itself [...]
Over the next several weeks, I will be sharing portions of the article, The Descent Into Unbelief: When Christendom Produces Cultists, Mockers and Atheists, by Jonathan Rice. It originally appeared in the SCP Journal (29:2-29:3) and is reprinted here WITH PERMISSION. Please respect their copyright.
This article struck a chord with me [...]
So far I have discussed the Germanic and Latin roots of the English words freedom and liberty. These histories certainly affect our conceptions of these words as we read verses such as, “Where the Spirit is, there is liberty,” and “If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” [...]
This looks to be a cool idea. I’m going to have to get a couple of extra cameras.
And did homeschooling ruin his kid’s life? Overall, a good article, but there are some things I take issue with. To me, it furthers the stereotype of homeschoolers as overprotective parents trying to shelter their [...]