Monthly Archives: March 2008

Dana’s terible, horrible, no good, very bad day

So, yeah. Today was not such a good day. But to understand, perhaps we need to go back a few days. To the end of last week. When I joyfully announced we were ahead of my plans for history. And I asked mouse what she would like to learn between [...]

Profiling Home Educators

Introducing Mouse, my eldest:

 
Often seen downtown during school hours, her favorite haunts are the Y, the zoo and the nature center. Her favorite place is up: up a tree, up on the shed, up on the roof, up on the back of the couch, up on the refrigerator. If she ever figures [...]

Life before homeschooling

Welcome to Home Education Week at Principled Discovery (March 30-April 5)! Today’s topic is Looking Back.
Share your personal history…before you were a home educator. What was life like? Think about things you miss and things you and your family have gained.
Happy Home Education Week!
As I looked forward to my junior year of college, I [...]

What constitutes abuse?

Thank you to everyone who shared their stories of survival yesterday, and I really only have one question:
What on earth were your parents thinking?
It is something I think a few of your mothers may have said as well. I am still trying to picture TLMinut’s mom as dad attempted to explain exactly what it [...]

Abuse or lapse in judgment?

Or maybe a guy thing? Because I could almost see my husband doing something like this, although probably not with a four year old:
He was demonstrating a trick at his home during the girl’s visit that involved heating up a liquor bottle and dropping a match inside, creating a shooting flame. After doing the [...]

Home Education Week is here!

Well, almost. Last week, I shared our governor’s ground breaking proclamation, giving Nebraska homeschoolers their own holiday perhaps slightly less well-known than Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Not to be outdone, Florida’s governor followed suit. Now, as I attempt to figure out what I can do in the real world to bring [...]

Not the “s-word”?!

The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at Phatmommy, demonstrating there is more than one “s-word” in homeschooling.

Homeschoolers and certification

For those who have been following the discussion between Stephen Downes and homeschoolers who took his post on the California ruling as an attack against homeschooling, he has responded with a post in which he better clarifies his stance and answers some of the points I brought up in my posts (Homeschooling is NOT abuse [...]

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