The following is a guest post by Laura Thomas of This Eternal Moment. A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge" - Thomas Carlyle I will never forget my first day of kindergarten. I wore my favorite ruffly dress that twirled nicely, my hair in pigtails, and clutched my favorite pink doll …
Archives for August 2014
Learning to be more committed to our kids than to our educational ideals
The following is a post by contributor Angie Kauffman of Real Life at Home. We never set out to be homeschoolers. I had never even heard of homeschooling until I was in college. I was working on my first degree in education, and when I heard about it, I thought it sounded ridiculous. How did …
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My favorite thing about back to school time
Written by Jamie C. Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool "It's back-to-school time, or as homeschoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time." ~ Stephen Colbert Would you rather listen to this post? He wakes early--and I always know when. I hear his voice drift down the hallway--starting …
4 truths about homeschooling
The following is a guest post by Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. You'd think, after 12 years, I'd have this homeschooling thing down. Nope! I'm still learning new things about myself, my kids, and what new seasons of homeschooling look like. We're in a brand-new season this …
Raising chickens and the art of project-based learning
Contributor Amida is currently obsessed with chickens and often blogs about them at Journey Into Unschooling. This summer, I decided to ditch the school work and focus on a more natural learning style, allowing our interest to dictate which topics we would explore. For my three-year-old, it was …
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