Pull Up A Chair
Shirley M.R. Minster, MS.Ed.

Pull up a lawn chair. Better yet, spread out a blanket under a leafy tree on the cool green grass, stretch out, and let's talk about summer and its special meaning for homeschooling parents. A common question that I am asked is, "Is it okay to not do school in the summer?
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Snuggle & Swing reading readiness has to do with the whole body
by Laura Grace Weldon

Today’s children sit more than ever. Babies spend countless hours confined in car seats and carriers rather than crawling, toddling or being carried. As they get older their days are often heavily scheduled between educational activities and organized events. Children have 25% less time for free play than they did a generation ago, and that’s before factoring in distractions like TV or video games.
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Are You Listening?
by Renée Fuller, Ph.D.

The two women entered my office somberly, followed by a boy of about three. Even a cursory glance at the child indicated that something was very wrong. He showed no interest in the toys strewn around the room, or in the three of us women. Instead the child scratched the furniture, the floor, even the walls with an unabated fury.
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Homeschooling: What's My Goal?
Cheryl S. Carter

Many homeschooling moms struggle with trying to accomplish so much in a single day. The key is to have goal. Goal setting is the key to productivity no matter what you do. You should already have a homeschool goal based on your educational philosophy. Do not think that statement is trite pedagogical term. You should really take the time to ask why you are doing what you are doing.
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Three Powerful Dynamics of a Mission-Minded Family
by Ann Dunagan

God has a destiny for your family. He has an individual plan for each member, as well as a “corporate” purpose for you as a family unit. God will help you, as parents, to train each child toward God’s mission for his or her life, and He will help you to focus your family toward making a strong impact for His kingdom—in your community, in your church, in your children’s schools, and in the world.
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Christian Unschooling (The Road Less Travelled)
by Jennifer Vogel McGrail

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.”

I don’t like being told what to do. I’m the person who, when told to do something, will likely want to immediately do the exact opposite, just on general principle. Lots of unnecessary rules make me uneasy. Unsolicited advice makes my skin crawl.

I was never one to march to anyone’s drum but my own.
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Learning In The Jungle
by Angela Fehr

I often joke that I am the poster child for the "unsocialized homeschooler." In 1989, my parents moved to the country of Papua New Guinea to be missionaries in a tribal village on the island of New Britain. I was in eighth grade, and I graduated just before we returned to Canada in 1994.
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Grown Without Schooling:
Confronting a world where people don't study
by Peter Kowalke

Many grown homeschoolers are wide-ranging academics on the side, but most people are not. That’s a problem.

As much as I question college, I love studying. I’m a major academics geek. Randomly put me in a room with 10 people, and most of the time I will be the one who sounds like a college professor; I’m almost always passionately studying some arcane or academic subject on the side, sourcing obscure books, visiting research libraries, conducting experiments or doing field research. When I’m not independently studying something, usually it means I’m overextended.
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The Tenth Intelligence
by David H. Albert

I have on occasion wondered what it might have been like to go through life as a Robin.

I never had the opportunity to find out. In the second month of the first grade at P.S. 131, my public elementary school in New York City, we were separated into “Bluebirds and Robins”. (I have since discovered that in other schools there were also “Sparrows”, who were “Special Ed” children before Special Ed was invented, those destined to ride “the short bus.”*) I don’t remember any test being involved; we were just told we were either Robins or Bluebirds and that was that.
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Resources & Reviews
by Shirley M.R. Minster, Suzanne Sniffen, Others

WordXpress: A High Speed-Vocabulary Builder, A Child's Geography of the World, Journey of the Strong-Willed Child
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Should Your Child Go To College?
by Barbara Frank

You now know that the greatest amount of job growth is predicted in areas that don’t require college, that most kids who attend college don’t graduate in four years and many don’t graduate at all, that college is getting more expensive by the minute and that borrowing to pay those high college costs can have lifelong consequences. You also know now that having a college degree does not guarantee a high income…or any income at all.
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Survivor Kid: A Practical Guide to Wilderness Survival (Book Excerpt)
Denise Long

What to do if you get lost? (And other practical solutions.)

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