How the Cool Homeschool Swaggering from Co-ops to Conventions
The cool don’t conform. That’s why we homeschool, right? Of course you can be cool and homeschool too!
100 Hilarious Homeschool Manners
A comical list of 100 homeschool manners for the entire family in every situation.
Homeschooling a Hardheaded Child The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Stuff No One Talks About
Why won’t he just do his work? He spends more time complaining about doing it than it takes to just do it. There is no magic pill or method of coaxing your child into quiet obedience. My advice for homeschooling a hardheaded child:
Homeschooling Will Always Be Wrong About Socialization According to a Homeschool Mom Who Couldn't Care Less
An equally unprofessional response to the PopSugar.com article:
“What Homeschooling Gets Wrong About Socialization, According to a Former Teacher”
If you subscribe whole heartedly to the public school definition of socialization in an artificial setting of same aged peers day after day, then homeschool kids are getting it wrong and always will.
Don’t Forget to Teach Self Confidence, Homeschool Mom What Do Your Kids See When You Look in the Mirror?
Chin hairs or no chin hairs, we must hold our heads high, ignore the marks of time and too many glazed donuts, and teach our children that we value ourselves beyond appearances. We must display confidence if we want to instill it in our children.
Cooking Your Way Across the USA A Tasty Geography Study of the 50 States
The most memorable moments from our homeschooling have usually included cooking or eating. Yummy or not (one time we ate a fried bug, not so yummy) eating brings in more of the senses and increases the ability to learn. When I asked my boys what they wanted to learn...
If I Had Been Homeschooled… What Parents Are Saying That Homeschooled Kids Miss Out On
Besides the obvious, leaving home 5 days a week for 8-10 hours/day and rectangular slices of cardboard pizza, I wanted to really list what would have been missed if I had not gone to a conventional school. If I am going to commit to homeschooling until college-do-us-part, I owe it to my boys to fully understand what I’m asking them to give up.
And the #1 thing readers said they would have missed was…
Do Not Let Anyone Push You Into Homeschooling You Have to Jump On Your Own!
I believe there are a handful of people who contact me every summer in hopes that I will talk them into homeschooling. They are stricken with indecision and the approaching end of summer break is like that lifeguard’s whistle signaling time is almost up. Either jump off the homeschool high dive or climb back down to the status quo.
Here is a list of reasons why I will not push you into homeschooling…
When Family and Friends Are Opposed to Homeschooling
It seems some people lose all sense of decorum when confronted with the disquieting news that you are planning to homeschool…The last thing a worried new homeschool mom needs to bear is the added weight of the thinly veiled indignation of others. As if their obvious questions and assertions haven’t crossed her mind.
Hi! I’m Jennifer…
…writer & speaker of homeschool truth, humor and inspiration. Laugh along as I keep things ‘real’ about life as homeschool family. Turns out…you don’t have to raise goats or wear denim jumpers after all!
