Comments on: Beyond Stereotypes: The New Face of Homeschooling

By: karen Loe

karen Loe — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:18:34 +0000

Fantastic post!
My stereotype was that the kids who were homeschooled were the kids who, due to ADD or ADHD couldn’t function well in the class room.
I Had alot to learn! Now we’ve been homeschooling for ten years!
karen Loe’s latest post: I Wanna Stay Home

By: Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site

Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:23:50 +0000

i really needed to read this post today. thank you!
Debbye @ The Baby Sleep Site’s latest post: How To Parent The “Right” Way and Baby Sleep Tips by Brenda Nixon

By: creating a learning home. » a learning home

creating a learning home. » a learning home — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:07:22 +0000

[...] now my reasons for this aren’t what you would automatically think, there is a lot of stereotypes when it comes to homeschooling. i am not trying to shelter or baby my girls. i am not in any [...]

By: TurnerMonique

TurnerMonique — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:28:12 +0000

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By: Melanie Rudd

Melanie Rudd — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:46:49 +0000

I’ve been homeschooling for 8 years and my sister just started last year. We were at our state convention a couple of weeks ago and I was telling her how much the face of homeschooling has changed just in the last 5 years! I now see a mixture of all kinds of people at the convention, and at our local homeschool group meetings. I think it’s great that people from different backgrounds and beliefs are learning about this wonderful method of helping our children to get the best education we can provide for them. Before homeschooling, only the very rich could have private tutors. Our children have private tutors who love them more than anyone else in the whole world and that is priceless!

By: John Briner- Arts

John Briner- Arts — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:32:20 +0000

After reading this post, my concept of homeschooling has changed ‘coz just like before I’m against of it but now, I’m confident enough to homeschool my children ‘coz one on one tutoring with my children is one of the most effective method of teaching.

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:11:12 +0000

Ahh how nice to read all those happy words ! Am glad for all of you.
Good to know that there are people sincerely enjoying it! Someone mentioned general approval from the community. It means the change has begun
You may want to check out the list of i gathered together.
Monica’s latest post: All Benefits of E &8211 Learning

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:09:29 +0000

I am enjoying my first year of homeschooling my daughter (Kindergarten). I wasn’t nervous when I started ( I was actually homeschooled for 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th) but I did have to convince my in-laws, they are on board now and supportive. Luckily, homeschooling is very popular in our town and she’s going to do a weekly 3 hour co-op next year. This is a great article!

By: Suzy :)

Suzy :) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:58:34 +0000

My family homeschooled during a time when there was not much internet interaction as you have now, so I agree this is a great time to start homeschooling.

The computer and the internet has improved the whole learning process for everyone, which can help learning become a life long process.

By: Suzy :)

Suzy :) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:45:53 +0000

When my family homeschooled from K-12th grade many moons ago, I had to definitely learn not to take anything negatively or personally that anyone said or did. If I had, it definitely would have effected the outcome, because we confronted lots of strange reactions and shunning — even from neighbors and other family members.

But being that I had a negative school experience, myself, and in spite of that I graduated with a degree in Art education (but only substituted for a short while.)
However, having a degree or taught in a public school setting is not what was important — it was changing my attitude along with learning other new words…

Words like resiliency, perseverance and consistency were very important — amongst many others that we learned along the way. Also, what we found — the simpler the process got — the easier it was to learn.

My sons have graduated out into the workforce and become productive citizens, and that has been very gratifying. They are working in careers they enjoy and get along with all types of people. (People always, bring up the inability to socialize as a negative aspect of homeschooling, but I think that homeschooling allows for more opportunities to socialize.)

I do have to say that we had no idea how the transition from home into the workforce was going to be, and they didn’t know if they would be able to compete. But it turned out they had all the skills they needed and then some.

So homeschooling has been a great thing for my family, and I would recommend it to people as a way to ground and bond with your family.

Thanks!