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2006 in Review: Homeschooling Blog at a Glance

As a new homeschooling blogger at Families.com, I wanted to know everything that has been discussed to date. In response to my own curiosity, and in an effort to make perusing our articles easier for you, our readers, I have compiled all of the blogs for the year 2006. Deciding to Homeschool Why homeschool Am I qualified for this? Reasons that Homeschooling Works! My Most Important Advice for Homeschoolers. The Cost of Homeschooling Instead of standing up for their own kids, why not stand up for all kids? Disclaimer: I am hardly an expert in education. Did You Know? ‘Empirical … Continue reading →

The HENSE Club: Inertia

If you’re new to this series, let me give you a small explanation of HENSE. HENSE stands for Home Educators who Never do Science Experiments. This growing population of home educators don’t do science experiments for a variety of reasons: they don’t really like science, experiments are messy and take to long and aren‘t worth it, especially if they don‘t work. But actually doing the experiment, is critical to learning the scientific method. In our last HENSE blog, we talked about scientific concoctions. This time we will make the leap from Chemistry to Physical Science. Today we will just talk … Continue reading →

In Defense of Teaching Creation

I recently read a well articulated blog about all the evils of home schooling. No socialization. . .students subjected to poorly trained teachers. . .and horror of all horrors, right winged fundamentalists raising an army of creationists. . .are all things that topped this guy’s list. I have many aspirations and goals for my children’s education, however, being in an army of creationists is not one of them. On the other hand, this gentleman would probably classify our family as one of those ‘right winged fundamentalists’ and we do in fact teach creationism and so I decided the comment made … Continue reading →