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10 Questions to Help Gauge the Quality of Your Child’s Education

10 Questions to Help Gauge the Quality of Your Child’s Education BY LINDA DOBSON Does your child awake on weekdays well rested and eager for the day’s learning (education) to begin? While it seems to be a standing cultural joke, it’s also a lie that all children dislike learning. It’s not the learning (they are [...]

Homeschooling Resources: Trains!

Homeschooling Resources: Trains! BY REBECCA RUPP EDITOR’S NOTE: May 11, 2013, was officially NATIONAL TRAIN DAY. But despite the fact that I slept through knowledge of it on the special day, I know that the following list of resources is too useful and brimming with resources your children will love to keep under wraps for [...]

Working From Home? 5 Awesome Tools for Running a Home-Based Business

Working From Home? 5 Awesome Tools for Running a Home-Based Business Homeschoolers who have taken the plunge into owning and operating a home-based business know firsthand just how tough it can be sometimes. Feelings of isolation, increased distraction, and the “always at work” feeling, can easily make what was you once thought was a [...]

Make a Mother’s Day Gift – Fantastic, Fun and FREE

BY LINDA DOBSON I get contacted by many companies to provide reviews and, as you may have noticed, I typically say no thank you. Then Wondershare contacted me about their newly released product Fantashow (fantashow.wondershare.com), and I thought it would be something you might like very much. I took a...

Parents Are Responsible for Children’s Education…Period

Parents Are Responsible for Children’s Education…Period BY LINDA DOBSON Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~ George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are thinking about your children’s education at this point, one thing should be perfectly clear: The days of throwing blame for the condition of public school between politicians, teachers, unions, [...]

Why Homeschooling Isolation Is Such a Silly Myth

The truth is when we look at the real meaning of education, public school is an isolating experience. Stuck within the restraints of four walls, scrutinized by authoritative figures every moment, surrounded only by same-age peers likewise confined in an artificially created society, and having every day planned down to the minute by...

What Happens When You Free Your Child from the Degrading Grading Experience?

Our accepted education practices greatly interfere with the brain's natural development, creating many of the learning problems schools then turn around and "fix" for us.

Awesome Lists for Homeschooling Families

BY LINDA DOBSON In today's wired world, there are so many resources available for homeschooling families and others who appreciate fun learning opportunities outside the schoolhouse walls that a parent could...

Is Home Better Than School for My Gifted Child?

BY NED VARE "Gifted" is a public relations term to make some parents believe the school recognizes talent in some children. It's self-esteem for parents; it does not benefit children. Gifted does not mean the same thing...

Is Homeschooling a Teenager Different than Homeschooling an Elementary School-Aged Child?

BY CAFI COHEN Teenage homeschooling presented a new set of challenges. Our children wanted to try all sorts of things with which we were only vaguely familiar. Our son wanted a private pilot's license. Our daughter needed outlets for all kinds of...