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Interviews with Homeschoolers – Vickie Smith, Part Two

We continue our talk with Vickie Smith, author of The Quiet Doll Queen and president of Ark Essentials Publishing. You can read part one here. Vickie, after teaching your children at home for a time, you chose to send them to public school. How did the transition go from home to school? My oldest adapted fairly easily. She’d already made friends and gotten used to things gradually. I also adapted to the huge amount of paperwork and costs that went along with public education. My second daughter struggled a bit, but part of that was by choice. She could’ve dropped … Continue reading →

Interviews with Homeschoolers – Vickie Smith, Part One

Today I’m joined by Vickie Smith, author of The Quiet Doll Queen and president of Ark Essentials Publishing. Vickie, thank you for taking time out to chat with me. How did you arrive at your decision to homeschool? I begged my mom to homeschool me way back before it was popular. I had a very stressful time as a young student. I always finished my work and just sat around class, reading. When I was an office volunteer, I’d get my homework for the day and be done in a short period of time. Public education just seemed so wasteful … Continue reading →

Homeschooling Hits the News … Again

The eyes of the nation are on this case. A Pennsylvania couple—Louann Bowers and Sinhue Johnson—was arrested for concealing their five children from the eyes of the world, raising them without heat or electricity, not providing for their basic health care, isolating them from anything found on the “outside,” and for not seeing to their educational needs. The couple is currently locked up in York County Prison, and the children have been placed in foster homes. They have received medical treatment and most of them have been enrolled in school. The parents say they have been homeschooling the children, but … Continue reading →

Homework Trouble

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Many parents say that completing homework is a struggle at their house. Either the child does not want to complete the assignments or the parents are unaware of how to deal with homework issues. What if you do not know how to complete your child’s homework? Today’s academics are very different from ever before. It may be possible that your child is working with methods that you have never seen. You do not have to be able to teach your child how to complete the work in order to help with homework. Praise your child for his efforts and ask … Continue reading →

A Homeschooler and Their Money will gladly be Parted?

…If they have the money to part with, that is. Valorie Delp recently wrote about The Cost of Homeschooling, where she detailed where homeschooling costs tend to come from. The people who commented on this blog post seemed to agree with her costs and felt they spent about the same amount. Today I am addressing frugal homeschooling, median cost homeschooling, and high-end homeschooling in a three part series. It is time to talk about high-end homeschooling. In homeschooling, money does not necessarily buy a superior education. It purchases a convenience, and ease. As my children move from upper elementary, to … Continue reading →

Homeschooling Professional Children

Some children homeschool because they want to. Some children homeschool because their parents think it is best. Some children homeschool to make time for other activities. Other children homeschool because they do not have time for school. Professional children are children that participate full time in sports, or as actors,or musicians. Most children you see on TV and in the movies these days are homeschooled. This is probably why so many famous people homeschool their own kids. It worked for them. Why not do the same for their children? Ice skaters, for instance, work out 24 or more hours a … Continue reading →

The Sunday Evening Review: January 21, 2007

We saw many changes in the homeschool blog this week. We said see ya’ round to Valorie, who is writing for another families.com blog, and hello to a brand new blogger, Karen. Keep an eye out for guest blogs from Valorie. We also spent some time visiting with bloggers from other categories. Our blogs meandered through different topics and issues in the homeschooling world, but for the most part, one good blog led to another. We started the week with a guest blog by Julie Gentry entitled Trusting Your Instincts: Know When to Say No in which Julie discussed how … Continue reading →

How Homework Led to Homeschooling (part 2)

My previous post asks how much homework a child in traditional schools should have to do. It goes on to describe my approach to homework, which could get lengthy at times. Here is how my approach to homework influenced my decision to homeschool: I took this rigid approach to homework because I did not know how long a teacher would remain on a concept before moving on. If the majority of the class understood, or if the allotted amount of time preserved for that lesson had passed, then they moved on whether my child was ready or not. For me … Continue reading →

How Homework Led to Homeschooling (part 1)

Homework may seem like an odd subject for a homeschool blog but a recent forum conversation got me thinking about homework and how much is really needed. Parents are seeing their kids get much more homework than they remember getting themselves. They wonder why, especially when the level of education is declining, (compared with other countries) kids have so much more work. Some parents think all of the schooling should be done at school, leaving the children time to play at home. Other parents believe that children cannot be successful unless they do a good deal of homework at home, … Continue reading →

So what Exactly is Relaxed Homeschooling?

Yesterday as I described my day, I realized that we are relaxed homeschoolers, and so I titled my posts appropriately. Before then, I had never given much thought to our homeschooling style or philosophy. Your style of homeschooling will stem from your beliefs toward homeschooling. If believe that Latin is an important base to English education and that history should be taught in the order that it happened, then you may lean toward classical homeschooling. If you think that your child should learn what they are led to learn, then you lean toward unschooling. If you feel like education should … Continue reading →