Category: Homeschooling
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Another Day in the Life
Yesterday I got up to no e-mail and no cellphone reception! Oh, horrors! How could I survive? Good thing the kids and I had decided that on this day of our “Staycation,” we would go to the Aquarium. So without further ado or hair-pulling, we were off to Monterey, where they had both Internet access…
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Lifelong Learning
Yesterday I wrote about what younger homeschoolers can accomplish in a short time, and then today into my inbox came a mention of this great project. A high school homeschooler is starting on a journey through the cuisines of all the countries in the world (presently 192, though I suppose that depends on who you…
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Self-Paced Learning
As I’ve noted before, there is one clear division between homeschoolers: those who chose it, often even before they had children, and those who ended up doing it out of necessity. Because I’m in the latter category, I seem to have an endless capacity for appreciation of the surprising ways in which homeschooling works. Yesterday…
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My Monthly Crisis
I’m having my monthly crisis of confidence. On the one hand, I’ve been trying to pat myself on the back about my son. For every little setback, it seems like there’s a beautiful burst of speed in the right direction. OK, so he does disappear for twenty minutes and when you call and call and…
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Homeschooling Role Model
Before we ever knew we’d be homeschoolers, we got to know our first homeschooling role model. Our daughter, newly turned four, was not having an easy time at preschool. In hindsight, I know that we kept her there way too long. But my image of my life had so far not changed: I’d get both…