Written by Laura Grace Weldon of Free Range Learning My seven-year-old daughter and I dressed up for a special evening out together. After years of attending Cleveland Orchestra children's programs and listening to stories of composers at home, she wanted to attend a "real" concert. We settled …
Learning through flow
Written by Laura Grace Weldon Flow is “a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue to do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi My daughter spent much …
What do you do every day?
Written by Laura Grace Weldon. How do you answer this homeschooling question? What do you do every day? That’s what people wonder about homeschoolers. Sometimes they ask us point blank, “Okay you homeschool, but what do you DO every day?” It seems like a huge mystery to non-homeschoolers …
6 homeschooling misconceptions erased
The following is a guest post by Laura Grace Weldon, author of Free Range Learning. A note from Jamie: This post wins the award for longest article ever published on this blog, but I found all of Laura's words so insightful and worth including. I hope you'll take the time to read it and be …