Posts Tagged ‘ Parenting ’

My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists

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The venerable New York Times Magazine published an article on November 8, 2011 titled My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists, by Margaret Heidenry: “Tired of the constraints of the 40-hour workweek, my father, in 1972, quit his job in publishing. My parents were in their early 30s, and they had four children under 7. ‘But...
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Spontaneous Learning

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Spontaneous Learning

Mothering magazine’s web site has a good article by Becky Jackson titled No Time for Teaching: Spontaneous Learning at Home: “In the four years I spent pursuing an education degree, I learned a lot about what to teach and how to teach it. Then I spent four years as a full-time mother. I would...
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Natural Learning Behaviors

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Natural Learning Behaviors

In an article titled Does Your Homeschooling Support Natural Learning Behaviors? homeschool mom, advocate and blogger Sara McGrath explores the concepts behind how children learn through following their curiosity, through play and exploration, and through experience. Sara, the author of Unschooling: A Lifestyle of Learning, The Unschooling Happiness Project, and Memoirs of A Strange...
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In Defense of Childhood

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While not specifically about homeschooling, an article by Brian Gresko, a stay-at-home dad and writer, explains his view that childhood is under attack by the very people who should be protecting it: parents. His article In Defense of Childhood: Let Kids Be Kids! explains: Many of the most important skills are untestable — imagination,...
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The Freedom to Homeschool

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The last of three articles on local homeschooling families is a positive, upbeat article from the Oct. 7th issue of the Dansville-Genesee Country Express in Dansville, NY, titled Homeschool Gives Choice to Students, Parents: The freedom to pursue what a parent deems best for their child is still allowed in America. That’s the feeling...
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A Journey to Unschooling

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A Journey to Unschooling by Mary Hickcox appears in the current issue of the newsletter, Dissident Voice: When I first heard about unschooling 8 years ago I thought it seemed crazy. I thought all the things that some of you are thinking right now. What about socialization, grades, college? My children need to go...
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Homeschool Techo-Literacy

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Kevin Kelly’s Achieving Techno-Literacy appeared in the Sept. 16th issue of The New York Times: One day our student would dissect and diagram the inside organs of flowers; the next he’d write short stories or poems and then revise them; and the next day we’d solve logic problems with algebra, then he’d work on...
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UN Children’s Rights

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CBS News’ Political Hotsheet has an article about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: 31 GOP Senators Oppose U.N. Children’s Rights Convention by Brian Montopoli – 36 comments Thirty-one Republican senators are cosponsoring a resolution opposing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the conservative...
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Free Range Learning

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Free Range Learning

Laura Weldon’s new book, Free Range Learning, received a glowing review in the news-tech magazine Wired’s blog, GeekDad: Free Range Learning by Laura Grace Weldon is a new book about homeschooling. It isn’t a strict how-to, nor is it just about someone else’s personal experience. It’s a mixture of the two, intertwining real families’...
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Homeschool & College

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Homeschool advocate Patrick Farenga writes about a message he’s carried “for decades” from John Holt, founder of the groundbreaking Growing Without Schooling: “…the message of John’s that echoes more today than ever for me is this: college is among the chief enslaving institutions of America. “When Holt said this I believe he was thinking...
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