Education – compulsory schooling, compulsory learning – is a tyranny and a crime against the human mind and spirit. Let all those escape it who can, any way they can. -John Holt When given the opportunity to break free from compulsory learning, older homeschooled children have the wonderful opportunity to follow their interests and...
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Unschooling, what is it?
Unschooling, Un schooling what is it? Defining unschooling is a little like describing a...
Bryn Athyn College – How to get into college?
Great place for students schooled at home. It’s Not Just About You! A Bryn...
Freedoms At Risk – Twenty Years Later
In the late 1980′s we started seeing incidents, at first seemingly unrelated but then...
Homeschooling Freedoms At Risk
In this title piece to a series of essays known as Homeschooling Freedoms At...
Older children
Learning to write
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Many new homeschool parents often ask when their child will learn to write? Just...
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Graduation
Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici Graduation season is here and often families with children approaching their teens wonder how homeschool families address...
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Gardening, flowers, gardens
Gardening, flowers, gardens – Learn about growing things. Usually children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world, because they can be in it unsupervised, yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one sees the garden as vividly, or...
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Reading Together – Learn to read with your kids
Reading with kids, read to your children, it is important and worth the investment. I read many books as a child, but I think I have enjoyed many of them twice as much when I read them with my children. Homeschooling gave us ample time to read countless books, taking our time to explore...
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Games
Many homeschool parents know that games are not only fun, but that they are also a great learning tool. We played games almost daily when my children were young. They loved playing Husker Du?, Chutes and Ladders, hide and seek, marbles or games that they had invented themselves. When we purchased our first computer,...
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Learning Springs Home Study Program
“Welcome to the Learning Springs Home Study Program. We have been providing curricula to public and private schools since 1994. Now, you can use the same high-quality courses right in your own home. Our program allows you to choose the exact course(s) you need, both text book and online, and use them at your...
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Bridgeway Academy
Full Support Online Home School. Personal Advisors, World Wide Coverage.
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Homeschooling Dads and Grandpas
The secret of homeschooling is that it’s never too late to start, even for those of us who were thoroughly schooled in our youth. We become like the homeschooling father who decided to retire early rather than move to a different state, a decision that was good for his family but reduced his income....
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- The Nov – Dec 2012 Check out excerptsKeeping the Parent-Teen Connection Strong Through Unschooling by Laurie A. Couture The natural state of adolescence is to be joyful, playful, social and connected to parents and community. Read to Me by Jennifer Walker The kids are still. They are silent. They are listening. They are beyond listening; Co-Parenting and Co-Schooling: by Michelle Barone Homesc […]
HEM Notes
- what are the long term ramifications of unschooling for our kids? an editorial discussion between HEM’s editor and publisherwhat are the long term ramifications of unschooling for our kids? an editorial discussion between HEM’s editor and publisher Barb: I’ve spent the last 30 years of my life wondering whether unschooling my kids would really make a difference in how they feel about themselves, their connection to others and society, their understanding of the human conditio […]
News & Commentary
- In the Land of Virginia HomeschoolersIn the Land of Virginia HomeschoolersThese are homeschooling articles I enjoy reading. Virginia Commonwealth University‘s Capitol News Service posted a lengthy article: Home Schooling on the Rise in Virginia by Allison Landry and Amber Shiflett. Homeschoolers were the homeschooling experts in this article, rather than people who like to study homeschooler […]
HEM Resources
- Hands On Science KitsHands On Science KitsTumblehome Learning, helps kids imagine themselves as young scientists or engineers and encourages them to experience science through adventure and self-guided discovery. Exciting mystery Adventure Fun experiments Hands On Science Kits All carefully designed to engage students. Learn more about how to engage and satisfy your kids scienti […]
HEM Closer Look
- Unschooling, what is it?Unschooling, what is it?Unschooling, Un schooling what is it? Defining unschooling is a little like describing a color, and every bit as elusive. You can rely on commonly-held descriptions; for example, we generally all agree what blue looks like, but what about cobalt, aqua, navy, cyan, sapphire, azure, indigo, cerulean, turquoise or cornflower? It’s the sa […]
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