Category: Education
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Socialization and the Homeschooled Child
Homeschooling parents will tell you that the comment they get most often from well-meaning adults is that their homeschooled kids might not get proper socialization while being homeschooled. Usually the well-meaning adult has an example or two to give as proof of the deleterious effect of homeschooling on the social skills of children. Homeschooling parents…
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A Study in Contrasts
A few weeks ago my son’s private school had their big spring performance. The other night my daughter’s public homeschool program put on their yearly play. It was a study in contrasts. I know a lot of people who have moved from public school to private. In fact, I know of families at my son’s…
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Empire State Egg Drop
More on the visual-spacial learning style. I’m reading Visual-Spacial Learners by Alexandra Shires Golon. She gives a lot of pointers about how to identify the visual-spacial learner — one of the uses of the book is for classroom teachers to identify and help their visual spacial learners. VSLs, as a general category, are people who…
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Workbook Envy
A couple of days ago I attended the homeschooling support group at the Educational Resource Center. A couple of the moms there were talking about how they put together lesson plans for their kids in advance. One mom said she was concerned that perhaps she’d missed things in her son’s math education. I was agog.…
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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…