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18 Reasons Why Doctors and Lawyers Homeschool Their Children
By Kathleen Berchelmann at ChildrenMD.org I’m going public today with a secret I’ve kept for a year—my husband and I are homeschooling our children. I never dreamed we would become homeschoolers. I wanted my kids integrated and socialized. I wanted their eyes...
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Creativity and Connection: More Reasons to Homeschool
Yup. This is how my living room looks on a regular basis. No, my decorating style is not “early refugee motif.” Those of you with creative kids will recognize this in a heartbeat. This is yet another installment in Adventures in Fort-building. My kids love make...
So you want a summer job?
Great! Summer is a good time to earn some extra money and get experience in the working world. Here are some things you need to know: Work Permit In order to work at a business, you need a work permit (jobs for individuals like babysitting or lawn work does not...
Why Doctors and Lawyers Choose to Homeschool
We’re all familiar the homeschooling stereotypes–long skirt-wearing, gun-totting, religiously zealous, backwoods-living weirdos and wackos. A friend of mine often ads an explanatory sentence any time he tells someone he was homeschooled. “But we didn’t make our own...
Homeschooling for the Non-Homeschooler
From Patheos.com The Internet is full of content on homeschooling. Google it, you’ll see. And it’s a subject dear to the hearts of many people here at Patheos. For goodness’ sake, we even have a blog dedicated to it, the brilliant Homeschool Chronicles, written by the...
No child is an Island: Homeschool Co-Ops Give Social Opportunities to Children Who Learn at Home
By Celia Baker, Deseret News Olive Ward’s busy life includes trips with friends to New York City's Museum of Natural History and other nearby cultural landmarks. The 8-year-old Manhattanite plays violin in a small orchestra, and makes craft projects with a weekly art...
5 Colleges that Offer Free Tuition
Sounds too good? Well on closer investigation, this claim actually proves true! There really are colleges that offer programs at no cost to students. One college even pays its students a stipend to cover living expenses! Of course free tuition is mostly for the...
Dick Morris Defending Homeschooling
The Department of Justice is seeking to force the Romeike family to leave the U.S. and return to Germany. They fled Germany because they were persecuted for homeschooling their children which is illegal in Germany under a Nazi-era 1938 law. Germany is the only country...
Common Core
“New and improved!” “Doctor recommended!” “Clinically proven!” No doubt you’ve seen claims like these on products. Have you ever seen this claim on a curriculum: “Aligns with Common Core Standards!” You might have questioned, “What in the world does that mean?” Or if...
Can Homeschool Better Meet Adolescent Sleep Requirements
“He’s sleeping like a baby!” I always found that phrase ironic when I had newborns. Newborns are sweet, precious bundles who steal your heart – and your sleep! Newborns wake up every 2 hours in the beginning. “Sleeping like a baby” is a misnomer. The accurate...
Preparing Your Home for Homeschool
So you’ve decided to embark on the homeschool adventure. Congratulations! Of course every adventure requires preparation. No doubt you have thought long and hard about the path you are about to take - weighing pros and cons, talking with various people, and...
Pros and Cons of Homeschool
To Homeschool or not to homeschool – that is the question! “Maybe we should homeschool the kids.” I don’t know how many times I’ve said this to my husband. It seems it is an ever-present, back-burner consideration for me. I was a teacher before we had children. I...
Do Homeschooling Expenses Qualify As An Educator Expense?
Written by Kelly Phillips Erb, Contributor for Forbes Magazine. Taxpayer asks: I called the IRS they couldn’t help me and told me to call our local office since they do not know our state laws. I did. They couldn’t give me live help on the phone unless I was a...
Who is on your Homeschool Team?
Soon it will be March Madness and people will be choosing “their teams,” making predictions about who will win the coveted basketball title. Of course basketball isn’t the only place for teams. If you are a homeschool parent, you also have a team. Not just the...
New Newsletter Format
Information, information EVERYWHERE! That’s our online world today. It’s great to have so much information available but it also can be daunting, overwhelming, and time-consuming to track it all down to its various cyber locations. That’s the beauty of...
Famous People with One Thing In Common
Tim Tebow. Dr. Condoleeza Rice. Ansel Adams. Thomas Edison. Alan Alda. Whoopi Goldberg. Recognize those names? Of course you do! And you probably immediately associate their names with their various accomplishments. But do you know what they all have in...
The Right Prescription
“Mom, I don’t feel good.” As a mom, it’s tough to see your kids sick. Your heart breaks to see them feeling so miserable and sometimes it’s a tough to decide how to best help them. I am so thankful for the great doctors we have had over the years – those who have...
Education is Not One-Size-Fits All
I am a mom of 5, including 2 sets of twins. The photo here is the crew. I bet you can’t guess who the twins are!! That’s because they are so very different from one another. Not just different in looks (no, I’m not going to reveal who’s who quite yet – keep...
First Things First
As a society we are rather obsessed with “firsts.” We take note and admire someone who was the first to do something. The first president, the first person on the moon, the first woman supreme court justice, the first black president, the first to swim the English...
Sense of Direction in Education
My family and I recently moved from upstate New York to the front range of Colorado. To say many things are different between the two locales is an understatement to be sure! The weather, the accent – even some vocabulary. For example, in New York it’s “soda,” here...