The Gookins, Doc and Toast Floats have all inspired me to come up with my own list of 10 reasons NOT to homeschool, by any means. Make sure you at least read number 10 because your input is required there….
1. Your kids beg you not to homeschool them. Tears are shed. Sure, you can [...]

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Happy Turn Off Your TV week!Woohoo. I thought vaguely about expanding it to video games and computer time…because we have had the occasional “no tech” weekends which were full of games and interactions. But, nah. Cutting off one form of entertainment is enough for a whole week.
DAY ONE
Naturally, TV is the easiest thing for us [...]

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(Defeating gravity one day at a time.)
The only problem I have with the majority homeschooling/unschooling articles I’ve read in the past year is that they tend to follow a predictable format. They are introductory articles, taking the approach that they just want you to wrap your head around the idea of homeschooling. This is reasonable [...]

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So many awards. So little time to whip a new award out of my own brain and make a cute button so I can feel the power. Oh wait, this is a circular award thingy! I can just pick my own thinking bloggers. Yes. Power at last! Now is really the pinnacle of my blogging [...]

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A cell phone is a handy thing. I remember when my Dad got a “car phone” in the 80’s and it was so big it took up 1/3 of the front seat. It took me a few decades, but after we started homeschooling, which meant tons of travel to and fro in various forms of [...]

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(zombie fears courtesy of cousin Jacqui.)
Want to see what kids who grow up with educational freedom create? Fairhaven school is a free school in Maryland that is run democratically by the kids. Its like unschooling on site, and the results are beautiful. I recommend sitting through the whole trailer on Youtube so you don’t [...]

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(That magical one celled egg pile)
For a lot of secular homeschool bloggers, the blog awards have not hit their particular niches or reached their audiences too well. No fear, Chris whipped up some good categories and simplified the voting process and got us a little instant blog validation.
Thanks Chris for making me a winner. Getting [...]

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In this day and age, with children so often roaming around like zombies sucking on sour gummies and using earbuds  to tune you out, it is ever so important to make sure that the vital facts reach them in a concise and clear way. A way that captures their natural curiosity and adresses their playful [...]

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Okay, wow. Now it is time to go vote for your favorite blogs over at Homeschool Blog Awards. I believe you can only vote once per category, so pick your faves carefully. I am pleased to announce that I have been nominated in two categories for Relaxed Homeskool, for Best Homeschool Mom Blog and also [...]

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(There are many ways to celebrate Turn Off the TV Week, April 23rd-29th.)
A friend recently posted this link to a yahoo list I’m on of Sir Ken Robinson, in which he gives  a lecture, part stand-up comedy and part earth-moving on how our current education system squelches creativity and ways in which we might instead [...]

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