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Are Homeschooled Children Sheltered?

This is a question I’m asked on a regular basis. My question in reply is, “What does it mean to be too sheltered?” If you’re asking if homeschooled children are more naive than their public-schooled peers, I would have to say, yes. I would also have to say, is that a bad thing? Children come into the world like blank slates. Their personalities are very much present, sometimes before they’re even born, but their knowledge base is pretty much empty. Then they start to soak up everything around them, good and bad, positive and negative. We try to fill their … Continue reading →

The Most Talked About Homeschooling Blogs in 2007

This is my annual list of the most talked about blogs in 2007. We love comments, and the more the better! If you have been wanting to peruse the homeschooling blog but weren’t sure where to start. . .this is the place to be! My Top 5 Math Curriculum Picks In Defense of Teaching Creation Too Much Information Homeschooling or Housekeeping? Why We Are Not Testing Our Gifted Son Reason #2 Why Tax Credits Are Wrong for Homeschoolers You Call That Homeschooling? The National Lunch Association Takes Aim at Those Who Dare to Eat at Home It Has Been a … Continue reading →

Are Homeschooled Children Over Sheltered?

I guess I have to think one of our families.com members, for giving me some fodder for this blog post. In my blog post, Can You Homeschool through College Too? Comments I wrote about the possibility of homeschooling past middle and high school into college. One families.com blogger, Valorie thinks the same way I do, that my kids who will very likely start college early, will do it through correspondence (and possibly community college) until they are 18. At that point, I will be packing trunks, breaking dishes, and sending them off to college! Another blogger commented that her 23 … Continue reading →

Are Homeschooled Children Over Sheltered? Part II

This post is the continuation of my answer to the question, Are Homeschooled Children over Sheltered? Part 1 details the ways in which I believe homeschoolers are sheltered… and proud of it too. On the other hand… No! Homeschooled children are not over sheltered… taking account the same caveat I mentioned previously. (That it will depend on the parent) Homeschooled kids are not sheltered form life. Homeschooled children watch television and the news. Homeschooled children witness death, birth, and destruction. Homeschooled children study and discuss history, sometimes repeatedly. Unless they are locked away, there is not way a homeschooled child … Continue reading →

A Little Bit Paranoid, Are We?

I’ve been looking over the blogs I’ve posted recently and noticed how many of them center around defending the choice to homeschool. I have to chuckle a little – if you were to take these by themselves, I’d look pretty paranoid. No, I don’t believe the entire world is out to get homeschoolers in general and me in particular. There are days when it feels that way, but I’m definitely not making this a drama. Fact is, it’s something we deal with, but it’s not unique to homeschool. Every person who makes a life decision that is contrary to the … Continue reading →

When Your Choices Offend Others

Recently, I offended some people. I probably do this regularly, even though I’m not someone who tries to be offensive. In fact, growing up I always tried to please people in power, usually my teachers. Again, this is one of the reasons I like homeschooling. I like fostering my child’s innate drive to learn, rather than a drive to please the educational system. I feel that while the education system was certainly encouraging for a bright little girl who liked science, it took a long time to buck the desires of others and follow what delighted me, which was science … Continue reading →

Socialization of Homeschoolers in the Upper Grades

I have been observing as my homeschooled kids enter and exit the middle school years, that the socialization that public school advocates say our kids so sorely need actually cannot be avoided. Outside of keeping our kids under a rock, if they spend any time at all in the real world, they will butt heads with the clicks, the bullies, and the manipulators. This phenomenon is intensified when parents pull their kids out of public school to homeschool in the upper grades. When you take a kid that has already been socialized, and often in a negative way, and throw … Continue reading →

Free College Level Classes

With two kids in high school in the fall, I’m starting to think about college credits. We’re probably going to be in that middle area when it comes to loans and grants. Too poor to pay their tuition outright, too wealthy (ha!) to quality for financial aid. Of course I have hopes that there will be scholarships, but since I don’t really want my daughters leaving home to go away to college, the opportunities will be a little more limited. Our state has a program for high schoolers to take community college classes in their junior and senior years. That’s … Continue reading →

Reasons I am glad I homeschool: Poor Judgement

I will preface this by saying that everyone has moments of incredibly poor judgment. In most cases however, such poor judgment affects only ourselves and at worst our own families. However, what happens when a teacher, a group of teachers or an administrator uses incredibly poor judgment? Recently, staff members at Scales Elementary school in Murfreesboro Tennessee, faked a gun attack during an overnight class trip to a state park. One of the teachers pretended to be a gunman (wearing a hooded sweatshirt) and unsuspecting 11-13 year olds were told to hide under tables. Eventually the students were told it … Continue reading →

Sunday Evening Review: January 14, 2007

Last week’s week in review got overlooked in Valorie’s transfer to the baby blog. (Check it out). Therefore, this week, you will get two, two, two weeks in one. Here is what has been going on in the homeschooling blog from January 1, to January 14, 2007. We started out the year with the 2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance and The 31 Most Talked About Blogs of 2006 . Still in a reflective mood, Valorie wrote Reflections on Homeschooling and Thoughts on Home schooling a Gifted Child . Constant reflection and re-evaluation in homeschooling is so important, … Continue reading →