Over at the Catoosa County News, homeschooler Jeannie Babb Taylor has a bone to pick with the "exit strategy" put forth by some Southern Baptists. It is actually an interesting article, with a few characterizations of conservative Christians which I pers...

[2007-07-26 12:14:00]

I have a guest poster writing this for me.  Remember all the whining over TMJ and sinus’s and the like, people felt sorry for me.  Now, before you read this guest post from Luke Holzmann, let me tell you a few things.  1.  IR...

[2008-10-11 05:16:48]

I’m not sure how many of you are part of the social network known as Twitter and/or Twitter Moms.  I am a participate in both and within the Twitter Moms group there are some men, but that’s not my point here.  I’m getting way...

[2008-10-01 19:05:55]

I’m not sure how many of you are part of the social network known as Twitter and/or Twitter Moms.  I am a participate in both and within the Twitter Moms group there are some men, but that’s not my point here.  I’m getting way...

[2008-10-01 19:05:55]

So, in case you got lost in all the mumbo jumbo from waaaay back when I first started reading The Case Against Homework by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish (which was sometime around…oh September 3rd), the approach I chose was to read the first half of...

[2008-09-27 11:44:18]

I made no bones about it when I first took this blog that I knew very little about homeschooling.  I have tried to take the focus of education and give it several lives, that of the parent educator, the public school teacher as an educator, the paren...

[2008-09-26 23:57:19]

The following is the same contest questions answered by my cousin who doesn’t do herself justice in some of these questions.  Her answers are in blue and my comments are in red.  Some of my comments come from prodding her for more informat...

[2008-09-19 13:39:39]

I’m going to summarize a few of the questions/answers for you.  I’m sure most of you read them but since it was several days ago, I’m going to give you some comparisons. Obviously, just as I figured, the people who read here are the...

[2008-09-18 13:36:44]

I’m not going to pretend that I have any clue what-so-ever how a homeschooling parent would teach that previous lesson.  But, I suspect that the method I mentioned might work really great in that matter.  If I were thrown into homeschoolin...

[2008-09-17 06:56:53]

I’m going to provide you with some insight into my ignorance.  You see, I can spell pretty well.  I make a lot of typos that have to be correct with spell check but generally I don’t misspell words.  There are certain words thou...

[2008-09-16 06:31:30]

Technorati Tags: Open Education,Sugata Mitra,Minimally Invasive Eduation,Homeschooling,UnSchooling,children,Hole in the Wall project,public schools While we were traveling last week, I managed to read a couple of books and post about them in great detail....

[2008-09-10 18:07:18]

The other night at the tattoo place, I was sitting waiting my turn.  There was a couple across the way from me who had came to Panama City Beach in an effort to flee New Orleans.  The couple was relatively young, that I could tell by looking.&nb...

[2008-09-06 05:47:22]

As you all know I’ve been mesmerized by all of the comments in every way possible.  I’ve bought books, I’m making plans to go to the library as soon as we get home to get more books and I’m simply turning into a book reading n...

[2008-09-03 05:14:35]

The biggest complaint I hear from parents of children in public schools in my area is the amount of homework children bring home.  Now, I remember being in school, I’m old but not that old.  And, I remember having homework.  But, I ha...

[2008-08-28 05:44:46]

Regardless of whether you homeschool, take your child to a public school or daycare/preschool, chances are you have a schedule.  So, I’m going to try to elicit some comments from the readers here about their schedules.  I know that most o...

[2008-08-25 05:58:34]

  I’ve made it fairly clear that I believe the most important educators in a child’s life are the parents.  And, in some cases, the parents are substituted for babysitters, aunts, uncles, preachers, Sunday School teachers, etc. ...

[2008-08-23 17:39:29]

I have offered to volunteer at my child’s school several times.  I’ve yet to be taken up on the offer.  His kindergarten teacher did say she might need me yesterday or tomorrow but she has yet to let me know.  And, since my mom ...

[2008-08-21 05:30:13]

Since I got carried away a little in the first post, I thought I’d give you a brief over view of what I hope to accomplish on this site.  As I mentioned before, the previous writer focused solely on homeschooling for the most part.  I woul...

[2008-08-15 15:39:45]

Excerpted from a Lilting House post I wrote in July 2006. Here is a list of Some Particularly Cool Stuff My Kids and I Have Learned a Ton From or Just Plain Had a Good Time With: Settlers of Catan, the board game. Jane got this for Christmas last year. We...

[2008-08-06 11:32:46]

Sunniemom has a great post up about “homeschooling for the right reasons.” It’s a great look at an article about home education in Montana that waxes on about those kids falling through the cracks when their parents pull them out over li...

[2008-06-16 07:45:59]

Well, they’ve found us out. It’s true, we’re all just a bunch of anarchists. Dana shared that the California Chapter of the National Education Association declared parents who did not send their kids to school were creating “educationa...

[2008-06-03 07:25:00]