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Ask a Homeschooling Blogger: I Want to Homeschool But My Husband is Against It

Question: I really want to home school. My son is in public school and I feel like we’re failing him because the classroom situation is so bad. I want to home school but my husband is completely against the idea. I know this is right for my son. Why can’t my husband see it? I think I need to answer this in two parts. I probably also need to say that I’m biased because my husband is fantastic at supporting our efforts in home schooling. I know–I’m lucky. Not only does he think that home schooling is great but he … Continue reading →

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 →

When My Husband Homeschools. . .

When my husband home schools everything gets messed up. He does nothing like I would teach it. He doesn’t keep track of which spelling words the kids have gotten right. He takes 3 hours to teach math. If I let him teach science, not only does he completely stray away from what the kids are supposed to be studying, they may end up in a completely different world. Case in point, we had the kids experiment with things that float. I know of no better place to do this but in the bathtub. (I feel like I must state that … Continue reading →

Think You’re Against Homeschooling? Just Wait

I just stumbled across a homeschooling mom blog where the writer explains that she used to oppose homeschooling. She was offered the opportunity to homeschool as a teen and turned it down. She saw her brothers get homeschooled. Yet she saw no appeal in it. She opposed it even to the point of debating against it in college and convincing others to not homeschool. But things tend to go full circle. She now homeschools her kids. Likewise, many of the people who have commented on her blog feel the same way. They were strongly opposed to homeschooling and eventually came … Continue reading →

You Call That Homeschooling?

I took my kids to the grocery store in the middle of the day recently. It’s a trip I avoid in part because we can be no where inconspicuously and in part because I simply don’t have enough hands to hold each of the twins, plus the four year old, all while making sure that what’s in the cart is actually what we intended to purchase and not something one of my children decided would be a good purchase for us. There was no way around it though, my husband wouldn’t have been home until too late and I just … Continue reading →

5 More Tricks I Use to Make it Work!

If you haven’t read the first part of this blog, you may want to check it out before continuing to read this one. I think that it is crucial to having the right mindset in order to understand how it’s possible to homeschool. Like all good teachers though, I have some tricks up my sleeve that I use to make sure that I get my children’s instructional time in. Note: Under New York State law, I am required to do 900 hours per year, which translates into approximately 5 hours per day. . .if you use a Monday through Friday … Continue reading →

The Party Favor (a homeschooling brag session)

My son went to a birthday party yesterday of a kid in a nearby city who homeschools. They are good friends, but don’t get to see each other too often, so even though it was a Sunday afternoon, and my dad was visiting, I drove the 20 minutes, dropped him off, met the dad (already knew the mom) and spent the next three hours window shopping and eating dinner with my dad and daughter. Taking him to the party was a huge inconvenience, but you know us homeschoolers must socialize! Anyway, at the end of the three hours, I returned. … Continue reading →

The Dad in Our Homeschool

People often ask if my husband is involved in our homeschooling. They assume that because he is an English teacher in a public high school, he must handle a lot of the teaching of English in our home. Nope. But, although I can’t say that he directly handles the conjugation of verbs, making up spelling lists or overseeing composition, I can say that he is directly involved in our homeschool in a way that is unique to Dad. He is involved as my partner in planning. Again, it’s not a direct involvement, since he trusts me to research, ruminate, ponder … Continue reading →

The Sunday Evening Review–December 17

We have been busy here in the homeschooling blog, and despite the upcoming holidays, we have been writing up a storm. Here’s this week’s Sunday Evening Review–in case you’ve missed something. Last week Andrea started what I hope will be a regular feature: the vocabulary word of the day. This week she shares four new words with us: syncretism, autodidact, extreme and mediocrity. Not sure how to use one of those in a sentence? Then you must check out the blog!! In Homeschoolers Control Their Children’s Environment, Andrea shares with us some things that we as parents can “control” such … Continue reading →

Dads Homeschool Too

I am sure you hear a lot about homeschooling moms, who choose to forgo careers to raise and educate their children at home. When hearing the phrase, “homeschooling dad”, one normally envisions a Dad who allows his wife to homeschool the children. In most cases, Dad works and supplies the income that allows the family to homeschool. At best, dad is considered the “Principal” of the homeschool. However, Dads homeschool too. Former art teacher now teaches his own: Recently, the St. Petersburg Times profiled John Daynard, a former art teacher, and current homeschool teacher for his kid’s age eight, six, … Continue reading →