Written by contributor Jena of Yarns of the Heart We have only one chance with our children. They will only be toddlers once. Thank goodness! And they will only be seven years old once, ten years old once, fourteen years old once, and then they will be out the door. They come back once in a …
Archives for February 2013
3 reasons I’m not qualified to write a homeschool blog
Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom The past few days have taken me on a little stroll down memory lane. You see, last week marked the third anniversary of the start of this blog. In that time Simple Homeschool has grown radically, and I've been …
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How to deal with the winter homeschool blues
Written by contributor Kris Bales of Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers. Winter doldrums. Winter Blues. Cabin fever. I was not going to write about this seasonal phenomenon because I've seen it mentioned on several other blogs recently. It's been covered, right? But I've been feeling a …
TV will rot your brains
Written by contributor Amida of Journey into Unschooling I grew up on a lot of TV. The first show I remember ever watching was a cartoon called Xiao Tian Tian. I had lived with a lot of other kids and every dinner, we'd all grab our bowls of rice, leave our families, and gather around the tiny …
Teaching a reluctant learner
Written by Toni Anderson of The Happy Housewife I have a child who hates school. This is hard for me to admit because it feels like I failed. I failed my son, my family, and the homeschool community. The bottom line... ten years ago I tried to force a square peg into a round hole, and it …