Lessons from Children

As her always-homeschooled children enter public school for the first time, Andromeda Romano-Lax, an Alaskan writer, author of The Spanish Bow and more than 10 travel and natural history books, shares her perspective on lessons she learned while homeschooling her children. Andromeda’s post is at 49 Writers, a blog for Alaskan authors:

They were giddy this morning; my husband and I were happy for them, but also a little sad — in that normal parents’ way — to turn the corner on a decade of family adventure, cooperative learning experiences with other homeschoolers, world travel, and a hundred strange little projects, like the year we all watched and reviewed as many famous American movies as we could, from the 1920s to the 1980s; or the Ancient Greek plays and mini-Olympics we staged with family friends; or the Novembers when my kids had the freedom to spend part of each morning working on their own novels for National Novel Writing Month.

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