Comments on: Homeschooling family values

By: rani

rani — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:18:03 +0000

I plan on homeschooling and I will do it to allow more flexibility for family.

By: Cathy Nagle

Cathy Nagle — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:27:09 +0000

What a “wonderful” story! It is so important to keep our children in touch with with Grandma & Grandpa, and in this case (EVEN BETTER) to take part in caring for them in their time of need! Oh that is such a big part of my heart! It thrills me to read this! It’s so important!

The *look* on her face hugging the puppy is PRICELESS! If one were to peek in my back door, that’s usually the way you will find me, hugging are doggie like that! =D What a great read that brightened my day!

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:16:54 +0000

How wonderful! Those lessons are the kind that can’t be taught directly, but are so much more valuable than anything you can teach in a book.

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Good Reading About Homeschooling « The Expanding Life — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:01:51 +0000

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By: Susan Gaissert

Susan Gaissert — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:40:43 +0000

I enjoyed your post: my mother lived with us for three years before her death, and the life lessons my at-home daughter learned from her were priceless.

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:28:21 +0000

Thank you Christine. I was just looking at that and trying to think of entries I’ve read recently. I haven’t been reading blogs as much the last month, though!

By: ChristineMM

ChristineMM — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:28:13 +0000

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By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:08:46 +0000

It is nice, isn’t it? Especially for making doctor appointments. I know I read from a lot of people who get upset when the doctor assumes they have time during the day because they homeschool, but doctors probably do that to them because of people like me. I always tell them we homeschool so I’d prefer during the day before everyone else is out of school. So much less time wasted in the waiting room that way!

By: JJ Ross

JJ Ross — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:50:02 +0000

Re: the “tremendous benefit comes from living off the public school schedule.”

Just wanted to say that’s been my favorite part of homeschooling!

Julie reminded me I once wrote a whole meditation on just how important I’ve learned this is:
We the Clockkeepers, Our Tyranny of Time

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:34:47 +0000

And thank you, Christine. That means a lot to me. OK, so the easiest way to flatter me is to say something nice about my writing. I didn’t mean to skip over your comment yesterday…I guess just having thought about it while we were out I forgot I hadn’t ever actually answered it.

It is hard to write about personal things like that, especially when there is strong emotion attached. And even though we filter what we actually write about, we still feel everything regardless of how much or how little we choose to share.

I do have a more personal blog if you are interested in that, although it is more focused on the small pleasures of family life and not so much on homeschooling directly.

It is funny that you bring this up. The blog started as more as a place to reflect on beginning homeschooling and a place to share what we were doing on a regular basis, hence the title Principled Discovery. I sort of got bored with it as I got more comfortable homeschooling and a little self-conscious of the number of emails I received asking for advice when I was brand new to homeschooling myself. Recently I’ve been missing that a little, I guess because there is a lot going on in our home right now.