I wanted to share a couple of reading programs that homeschoolers can participate in.
I know there are some parents who oppose this sort of thing, but I am all for getting free stuff for something the kids love to do anyway.
The first is Pizza Hut’s Book It! program. Homeschoolers can register here. You get [...]

We are back from our weekend trip, but things have been very hectic here this week, so I have not had time to post. I am hoping to get some stuff up tonight.
In the meantime, make sure you check out this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling - it’s Homeschool Roadtrip time at Consent of the [...]

This year, the kids and I are doing a community garden plot again. We live in an apartment, so we have no space to garden in at home, but Burlington Parks and Recreation Department has a wonderful city-wide community garden program with ample space.
When we started the garden, this was our plot. (Not [...]

This week, there was a controversial post up about homeschooling moms being oppressed and unpaid labor and blah, blah, blah, so I thought I would make a list of why my job is better than my husband’s.
I’ll start with five:
1. I get to blog/surf whenever I want.His IT Department blocked all sites marked “entertainment” and [...]

I remember once last summer, at Big E’s swimming lesson, I was chatting with another mother and she noticed that Little E had some colors on his hands. She asked him what it was and we told her that we had been mixing colors that morning.
We took glasses of water, colored them with food [...]

The kids had a really cool experience today. I had my monthly government access show this evening and, as I usually do, I brought the kids with me and Bob stopped by the studio on his way home to pick the kids up, before the show went live.
Well, this month, there was no volunteer [...]

I was reading this story this morning, which is “the second in a five-part series examining home schooling in northeast Kansas.” It talks about socialization.
There are extensive quotes from Bridget Biggs, an assistant professor in Kansas University’s clinical child psychology program.
She concedes:
that children who are bullied, rejected and continuously victimized can develop a negative [...]

I just came across this opinion piece written by a grandmother of homeschooled kids, via Google alerts.
But one significant benefit to home schooling, and one of the reasons many parents make the choice, may surprise you. It’s the socialization.
Yes, I do mean socialization. Far from being a drawback to home schooling, as the myth would [...]

Shortly after I started homeschooling, I was taken in by the notion of unschooling. It seems that a lot of the homeschooling families that I encounter in the blogosphere unschool, at least to some degree, and the case they make is very compelling.
The notion that the children will learn more when they are learning [...]

Updated
I meant to get this up earlier in the week, but it is not too late yet.
Tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo, or Battle of Puebla Day as it says on my calendar. It commemorates the Mexican defeat of the French at Puebla on May 5, 1862. Here is an interesting history of [...]