Homeschoooling With a Support Group
Mom and I were invited by The Homeschooler magazine to write about the homeschooling support group our family participated in while I was growing up. The piece was published in their Winter 2013 issue. The article was a conversation between my…
Living in the Now, And Looking for Balance
In the last post, I asked “why now?” regarding the growth of homeschooling in my lifetime. I sited Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson’s ideas about the outdated industrial-era model of our current education system. I also discussed Douglas Rushkoff’s…
Finding Homeschoolers In All 50 States: 1989 & Now
A while back I shared a pen-pal letter that my older sister and I sent out to other homeschooling children in 1989. We used the directory in the back of the Growing Without Schooling Magazine to gather names and addresses, and…
Changing the Route Can Change the Destination
It’s a busy time of year for everyone – I don’t expect you have much time to cozy up to your computer screen (or tablet, or phone) and read blog posts. But that’s not the real reason I’ve been slow…
Those Who Can
I have been exploring what motivates different people to pursue work as teachers. This interview and my last post represent two interesting paths and experiences of peers of mine — a young generation of teachers. This interview is with an old friend…
Gen Why: How Millennials Will Parent
I had heard things about the Millennial generation for a while before I realized I was part of it. I listen to a lot of NPR, and I feel like there’s always a radio guest fretting about the Millennials’ loss of…
Same Parents, Different Chapter
In my last post, I examined the different experiences of my siblings, and I questioned how birth order impacted our views on homeschooling within the same family. I referenced several quotes from a New York Times book review that really struck…
My Other Two-Thirds
I am the middle of three kids. But because my mother’s journal, which we’ve been reflecting on, was written when it was just my older sister and me, there has been little mention in this blog about the youngest sister in…