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Table of Contents HEM September-October 2011
Articles Mailbox Travelers: The 2011 Letters Project - by Tamra Orr
How can homeschoolers show the children the world? Read how one family is doing it by creating 2011 Letters, a blog that invites the world to stop by and say hello.
A Homeschooling Family Hits the Road - by Wanda LaBrecque
Wanda LaBrecque explains how to plan a cross-country camping adventure for your homeschooling family.
Picture Books for Homeschoolers Part Four in Building Your Home Library - by Lisa Hartman
In her fourth article in a series for Home Education Magazine about building a home library, Lisa Hartman recommends specific picture books that will enrich your family's reading life.
An Unschooled View On Bullying - by Kate Fridkis
Some people think that being bullied is a normal part of childhood. This grown unschooler is really glad that she didn't have to go through it, and she thinks being homeschooled is a good way to avoid facing bullies.
Parenting a Precocious Reader - by Julie A Finn
Homeschoolers frequently discuss allowing children to learn to read at their own pace and reassure one another about children who read "late" according to school standards. But there are also homeschooled kids who read early and proficiently. Julie Finn addresses the many challenges involved in parenting a young child who can read very, very well.
Nurturing Your Budding Writer - by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
A mother of three budding writers shares tips on supporting and nurturing the young writer in your care.
Columns Questions and Answers - by Laura Weldon
Family Criticism and Photographing Kids
Family Criticism We're moving back home due to unemployment problems. We'll be living in a duplex with my parents right next door. I need help warding off criticism but doing it nicely. Please give me some lines you've used! - Amy in Oklahoma Share your insight with Amy and other HEM readers. Photographing Kids My friend has a very popular homeschool blog. Several times she has written posts about activities that involved my children and included photos of them. I've told her I'm uncomfortable about this but she's so caught up that her camera is ever present. I hate to stop seeing her, especially since our kids get along so well. Any suggestions? - Non-Blogging Mom Share your suggestions here.
Learning 101 - by Tamra Orr
Never Say Never
Tamra Orr details and explains a number of parenting decisions she's made which played out quite differently than she imagined they would, and a few which turned out just as she'd hoped.
Taking Charge - by Larry & Susan Kaseman
Celebrating Learning Through Homeschooling
This column is an exploration of the very serious limitations imposed by what conventional schools, by their very nature, create.
Publisher's Note -
Unschooled Girl -
Good Stuff - by Becky Rupp
Buzz!
Rebecca Rupp explores the wonderful world of bees and honey
My Word! - by David H. Albert
The Low End of Submediocrity
David Albert shares his adventures as a second violin
Road Less Traveled - by Linda Dobson
It Isn't a School at All
Linda examines the basic differences between the learning which happens to those kids who climb on those big yellow buses - and those who don't.
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