By guest author Cindy Puhek
I have found the secret of successful homeschooling. Want to hear it?
It’s not finding the perfect curriculum. I’ve known people who use traditional classroom textbooks, and I’ve known people who use unit studies.Read More
By guest authors Hal and Melanie Young
There are days when we look at our sons and think, “If they were in school, they’d be on so many pills they’d rattle when they walked.” At one point before our oldest graduated, Melanie was teaching six boys aged 18 to six. Was it noisy? You bet. Active? Quite. Chaotic? Oh boy. It still is.Read More
By guest author Lyndsay Lambert
A friend of mine once told me that if she was going to homeschool, she wanted to give her children things that they could not get anywhere else. I liked that, so I began to think about what that would be for my family. I decided it would be an education that incorporates Scripture and character into all aspects of the curricula.
We believed that if we could teach our children to work with numbers, to read, and to write and train them in character, they could educate themselves. How? They would have the tools and the desire, as well as the character needed to persevere. That does not mean we did not pursue academics; rather, we emphasized tools and character training as the most important part of schooling.
Highschool Corner
By guest author Daniel Craig
I wasn’t your ideal homeschool kid. Believe me. In fact, you’ve probably heard the breathtaking stories of amazingly disciplined 10-year-old “wonder children” who wake up every morning eagerly waiting to propose their top 5 goals for the day, listed with A, B, C, D, and E priorities. Unfortunately for my mother, that wasn’t me.
Nevertheless, though I certainly wasn’t the homeschool poster-boy, Mom and Dad toiled continuously to instill in me the essential character qualities they knew would be paramount to my success in life.
For them, homeschooling had less to do with schooling and more to do with work ethic, good communication skills, and my desire to love, fear, and serve the Lord. With this approach, they gave me the foundation for successful entrepreneurship – long before entrepreneurship was even a consideration in my mind.
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Homeschooling Littles
By guest author Marcie Watkinson
Young children are not known for their patience. Adorable, funny, cute, smart, mischievous, observant, talkative, shy, sensitive, and outgoing are all words to describe little ones, but not “patient.” Mine want their breakfast the moment their sweet heads rise off their pillows in the morning. Going to the bathroom is suddenly a huge emergency as soon as they discover someone else is using it (never mind the fact that we have two more bathrooms upstairs that the needy individual could easily use).
They ask ever so kindly if they could play with a toy when their sibling is finished with it, but if the particular sibling is not finished in about twenty seconds, the kindness disappears and frustration takes its place.
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