I wrote a long post about community to a homeschooling list in response to a discussion about “feral” children some of us have encountered, and nobody responded. That always upsets me. So I’m going to inflict the damned thing on…
Cool Site/Healthy Meal
Even if I weren’t homeschooling, I don’t think I could ever leave the HSing lists because I just enjoy the resources that are shared there too much to not lurk, at least: GodChecker If you felt a weirdness in the…
Homeschooling and “Religious Fanatics”
Why I Homeschool My Children by Drucilla Blood Five years ago, I was sitting in my kitchen with a friend of mine from Alaska. She was mother of a bright 4 year old, and a beautiful 7 month old baby.…
Tidbits
Assumptions are the termites of relationships. –Henry Winkler, actor (1945- ) (I found myself somewhat surprised by the source of this quote.) Former homeschooler, now MIT professor, wins “genius” grant A 22-year-old MIT professor whose work fuses art, science, work…
Learning Styles
patgreene—this might be helpful in determining your boys’ learning styles: From a TAGMAX member: I found the book “Discover Your Child’s Learning Style” by M. Willis and V. Hodson to be VERY helpful. It has little quizzes that the child…
Girl Scout Program for Homeschoolers
If you’re a homeschooler in Georgia, the NW Georgia Girl Scout council has a pretty neat new program this year for your daughters. They can go to Camp Timber Ridge one day a month to participate in one of two…
Our DFCS Experience
You know, I kept meaning to write about this and forgetting to actually do it. Way back on May 7 of 2003, I was very surprised to get a call from a social worker at the Department of Family &…
Homeschooling with PDAs
CyLearning.Org – collection of resources for using PDAs for homeschooling
CHE Site
So I’m moving the Creative Home Educators site to the larp.com server (thank you pickmansraven!). It has Bravenet crap in it, so I started to just take that stuff out—and the layout goes all weird. The current site was done…
Writing Resources
There were two links in today’s SurfNetKids newsletter that I thought y’all might like: Creative Writing Prompts http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/ *** Delivering on the promise of their title, Creative Writing Prompts serves fresh ideas to get your pen to paper, or fingers…