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Compulsory Education: Should parents be allowed to choose not to educate their children?
Posted Friday, May 18, at 9:01 AM In my last post, I argued that if homeschool parents don't want to lose the right to homeschool, they need to keep turning out well-educated children who are academically comparable or even superior to their public-schooled peers. I pointed out that if our scores start to slip, critics will gain a foothold and find ways to impose unwanted regulations on us. ...
An Open Letter to Lazy Homeschoolers Today's post may come across as rather harsh, but this subject has been weighing on my heart for quite some time. I do not mean to hurt or discourage anyone, but I feel that this is important. I also want to make it clear that I support homeschooling and recognize that there is great flexibility within a legitimate homeschool experience. ...
Locked Out at the Zoo I would have thought it was a lot funnier if it had happened to someone else. I'm sure our family looked hilarious, gathered outside our green 12-passenger van in the parking lot at the Indianapolis Zoo, trying to find a way to break into it. I had made my oldest son take off his belt and was dangling it through the driver's side window which was opened just an inch. ...
Rachel and the Kings of the Bible Rachel's 3rd grade reader from Rod and Staff' is based on the Bible. It started out with stories about King David and King Solomon, but we are starting to get into some of the lesser known stories of subsequent kings after Israel was split into two kingdoms. For a nine-year-old, it's some pretty heavy stuff, full of wicked kings who worshiped idols and practiced all sorts of evil. It's interesting to listen to her commentary as she reads through her lesson...
Easter Humor I'll be honest--I'm not a morning person. But yesterday was Easter, and our family always attends the Sunrise Service. In Clay City, where my husband pastors, many of the churches get together each year for a community Sunrise Service. It's always a beautiful event and well-attended...
Life is Short On Wednesday, March 28, five people, including two children, were killed in a tragic auto accident in Carlisle on U.S. 41. These were the step-children, cousins, and friends of one of my co-workers. On Friday, March 23, two men were in a plane crash near Bloomfield. One of the men broke his back and fractured his skull and has no feeling from the knees down. He is the father of six kids and the wife of one of my friends...
Spring Fever It's another day of brilliant spring colors. The sky is so intensely blue it almost hurts my eyes to look at it. Fluffy white clouds dance by, pushed on by the refreshing spring wind. Flowering trees drip pink and white blossoms all over the new green grass. We open the windows and let the fresh air in, breathing deeply and enjoying the new scents it brings us--flowers, newly cut grass, and hamburgers grilling from blocks away...
The Socialization Question Every now and then one of my kids' friends tries to convince my kids that they should go to public school. Why? So they can have friends, of course. Because everyone knows you can't have friends if you don't go to school. My kids and I always get a chuckle out of the assumption that homeschoolers don't have friends. ...
A Homeschool Memory Many years ago when I was a child, we were studying Sir Edmund Hillary and his famous expedition across Antarctica in 1957. Typical of KONOS, one of the suggested activities was to stage our own Antarctic expedition. It was late fall, probably around the end of October if I remember right, and the nights were already dipping down into the 30s. ...
Parenting Tip: Make Sure Your Kids Take You Seriously Scenario: A mom and a toddler are at the store. He decides he wants some candy. Mom tell him no--put the candy back. He ignores her and begins to walk off away from her with the candy. She tells him to get back here right now. Then she begins to count. ...
How to Choose Curriculum One of the first questions new homeschoolers have is how to choose a curriculum. While there are many options, they can be roughly sorted into three main strategies-- going with a boxed curriculum, picking out your books individually, or doing a unit study. I am going to examine the pros and cons of each one...
Feeling bored? Looking for a new way to hang to hang out with friends? Maybe planking is right for you! For those of you who have never heard of planking, it's one of the latest fads to be sweeping the Internet. People all around the world are posing as pieces of wood in strange places. ...
Free Homeschool Drama Class Starting Soon I wanted to take a moment to promote a free drama class I will be teaching for homeschooled Jr. and Sr. High School Students that is starting up soon, called "Basic Drama Projects." I will be teaching this semester-long course from January 27 to May 11 on Fridays from 1:00 p.m. ...
Why I Homeschool--Part Four: (I can brainwash my own kids, thankyouverymuch!) Of all of the reasons I have for homeschooling, avoidance of public schools is way down near the bottom of the list. I usually prefer to focus on the positives of homeschooling rather than the negatives of public schools. However, I feel obligated to point out that there is a dark side to public schools. ...
Back to school (for me!) This week my college classes start up again. All of my classes are online again this semester. So far in my entire school career I've only had to take two classes on campus -- last spring when I took Algebra I because I forgot everything I'd learned in high school and Ivy Tech didn't offer that online, and this summer when I took Chemistry because I thought it sounded like fun. (Ha!)...
You can't have Christmas without the Messiah On Dec. 30 we spent the day with my family for our Christmas celebration. Since Christmas came on Sunday this year and since there are several pastors in the family who live several hours apart, it wasn't possible to get everyone together on Christmas Day this year. Instead, we decided to wait until the Thursday after Christmas to get together. Besides the food and presents, the highlight of our family's Christmas is to sing from Handel's Messiah...
Why I Homeschool--Part Three: (I love the flexibility) One of the most pleasurable benefits I have found to homeschooling is the flexibility it offers. Because I am not tied down to the public school's schedule, I can create an educational plan that fits around our unique lifestyle. Although there are state laws we have to follow, there is still enormous freedom to do what works for us...
A Question About Structure I received the following letter from one of my readers and thought I'd share her letter and my reply here: Dear Lisa, We took our daughter (age 9) out of the public school system this year and she is attending online public school. This has been a totally great, but at times trying experience for the both of us. ...
I am taking a small break from my "Why I Homeschool" series because I woke up with something else on my mind today. I had been dreaming that I couldn't find any clean clothes to wear to work and had ended up wearing a white leotard, a denim skirt, a red, lacy shirt over the leotard, and a diaper. ...
Why I Homeschool--Part Two: (I like being with my kids) I posted in my last blog that the primary reason I began homeschooling was because I was homeschooled myself. Both my husband and I were raised in conservative Christian homes, although there were slight differences. For example, his mother and sisters wore skirts or dresses only, and in my family, the girls wore pants. As we grew up together in our first few years of marriage, we had to evaluate the different ways in which we were raised and decide what we believed, as a couple, about issues...
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