Posts Tagged ‘ Parenting ’

Parental Qualifications

Psychology Today blogger and author Laura Brodie poses a thorny question: Should Homeschooling Parents Have College Degrees? The subtitle: You’ve got a GED. Are you ready to homeschool? An excerpt: “To me, the idea that parents with GEDs could, if they desired, turn around and teach high school to their children is setting the...
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Why Aren’t You Homeschooling?

In an editorial titled Why aren’t you homeschooling?, Jim Willson, who writes for the Hernando, Mississippi DeSoto Times-Tribune, began with this pronouncement: “Do you truly know what schools are teaching your children? If I wagered a guess, 9 out of 10 parents do not. The only sure way to know is to educate your...
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Father’s Day Story

As fathers across the nation were celebrated on Sunday for being great dads, a new study on fatherhood shows that an increasing number of men are seeking alternatives to a traditional 40-hour workweek in order to spend more time with their kids. Take Michael Sherman, 38, who last year moved out of his law...
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Kiddie Sabbaticals?

Jay Matthews writes in the Washington Post: “When it gets too bad, a family may pull a child out of school to let everyone calm down and see whether another approach can be found. The pause in schooling doesn’t usually last long. The student reads on his or her own for a while —...
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Homeschooling to Escape Bullies

Laura Brodie, author of Love in a Time of Homeschooling, and a blogger for Psychology Today, addressed the question of Bullying as a Reason for Homeschooling in a March 24 post and Mean Girls and Homeschooling Moms on March 31. A follow-up post today, Homeschooling to Escape Bullies: What’s Wrong with That? explores “the...
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How Do Unschoolers Learn What To Eat?

Branching away from the typical media buzz about unschooling which flooded us last week, Jennifer LaRue-Huget poses a thoughtful question on her Washington Post blog, The Checkup: How do unschoolers learn what to eat? The question isn’t as facetious as it sounds, and LaRue-Huget provides some thoughtful commentary, an eye-opening quick survey, and some...
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On Criticism and Resentment of Unschooling

An interview at MomLogic (“What Moms Are Talking About”) with Sandra Dodd, by Julie Taylor, titled Why I Unschooled My Three Kids, includes some thoughtful commentary about the kind of resentment and criticism of homeschooling, and especially unschooling, which we’ve seen in the national media, especially in the comments sections, in the past week....
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Mainstream Perception of Homeschoolng

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While homeschoolers will continue to live their lives according to their beliefs and convictions, public perception of homeschooling can make life easy or much harder. With that in mind, NBC’s Housewives series has written homeschooling into their script. From this week’s online summary: Reading, writing and respect: When Juanita lets a swear word fly...
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Honesty

From some kind of search (there are too many to keep track of). I do remember that I wasn’t looking for public programs for home educating families. We’re Not All Cut Out for Homeschool, Toast Floats Polly has both optimistically and euphemistically referred to as one of our “supportive conversations about homeschooling and parenting”...
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Homeschooling inspires active parenting

Financial Home Schooling, 25 April 2007, Washington Post, Washington, D.C. What was the hook to get them to sit still for 40 minutes? The next raise in their allowances was contingent upon it. At a time when financial independence is increasingly a function of an individual’s money management skills, we owe it to our...
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