My local school will begin the 2011-12 school year next week. While this doesn’t really effect my home school, it does increase my level of stress a little bit. We took an unforeseen break in June and July as far as school was concerned. Family issues required much of my time, and school was the [...]

Are you getting ready for the new school year? It is right around the corner. While we do home school all year long, we still have a certain excitement that happens around the beginning of the traditional school year. We love going to buy school supplies, new pencils, pristine new notebooks, at great prices. Another [...]

Do you have a reluctant writer? I’m not talking about penmanship here but about actually writing of paragraphs, reports, journals, and things like that. I have a very reluctant writer. My daughter does not like to write anything. She does not like to put pen to paper for any reason. We think that part of [...]

I have come to the conclusion as of late that history, social studies, and political science are among the most important things I can teach my daughter. Numerous historians, politicians and philosophers have had their take on the saying that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. Without [...]

Many parents are finding out that there child is not where he or she should be at the end of the school year. Final evaluations are out or will be soon, and some parents are in for some rather unpleasant news. It may even be unexpected news as some school systems are teaching “to the [...]