I am having a great time teaching astronomy to homeschoolers in grades 4 to 6 this year. I am using an Apologia Astronomy textbook combined with an assortment of art projects. This week we learned about

Due to the commercialization of modern schooling and education systems, schools have begun operating on business models. Institutions that once nurtured children's childhoods, fostered critical thinking,

I’m just a regular homeschool mom with a computer full of cute ideas. So, I started playing around with my computer, making digital designs that are actually fun and cute. I’m posting this because I want

A mother and father are essential to a whole child as each as unique traits mirrored in their baby. That other people may help does not diminish the central role. Those trying to remove parenthood from

The public school system was never meant to be about education. It springs from the Prussian model, which was meant to instill unyielding obedience into the young so they would be good soldiers on the

Never confuse "schooling" with "education." Education can take place anywhere, and the skills you need to succeed in work often require study outside the dim halls and dormitories.

Travel Blog Please join me and my guest blogger Minime(Maximi) as we chronicle our latest homeschool trip to Vancouver over the Christmas Holiday. Not to worry poetry fans, you will also find a piece of

Tales From Our Travels Minime, who is now most certainly Maximen ... a whole head taller ... just got back from a trip to Vancouver. The trip was part of our homeschooling and so over the next week or

Today my post is about the recent world schooling hub at Hive Hub! We had a 6-week hub here in San Marcos, and honestly it’s been really interesting. This was the first hub we’ve done here, and it was

"Think of the children" is a mantra often used to shut down discourse and thinking skills. And public schools are often used to manipulate people into asking for more state control. Don't be

In the late 1980s, when I was still very young, a traveling salesman convinced my parents to buy a set of World Book encyclopedias. I might have been in the kindergarten age range at the time, but they

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It's funny when you dive into your heart and responsibilities. Maybe it is just me, but it almost feels like the roadblocks clear and the path opens wide. It is not without work or challenges, but tools

When I was a very small child, home-schooling was a rare thing in the United States. By the time I was approaching kindergarten age, it wasn't a completely new idea, but it was still uncommon and widely

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I recently watched a video by Bullet Journal, an interview with Anne-Laure Le Cunff about setting experiments, not goals. I thought it was interesting...the idea of doing experiments. So I wanted to figure

My mom's purpose in life is to homeschool people and especially children with her library; my emotions were rough, bad mood today but we sorted through boxes of papers and things; watched: Candace Owens

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Last week our homeschool group met up to learn how to make Panamanian tamales. The process of making tamales is a very long process, so if you ever receive a tamal, know that it is a labor of love!