Back to School for Homeschoolers
I can still remember the summer before Kindergarten. Up until that point, I wasn't sure if my son would continue to be educated at home or go off to school. The public school in our...
Gameschooling
As the mom of a kinesthetic learner, one of my favorite homeschool strategies is "gameschooling."
Gameschooling is defined as using games for learning or education, in an intentional way.
This doesn't mean that we play video games all day. But, we...
Begin Your Carschooling Journey
Ok, fine. Carschooling is a word I made up. I think. It's possible that it already existed, but I definitely made it part of our daily schooling, regardless of how it came to be a part...
Do you let your kids play with fire?
For most Americans, child safety means keeping kids far away from anything sharper than a nerf ball.
However, you might be surprised to learn that not all countries treat their children like delicate...
Quarantine Schooling Doesn't Have to Suck
*Welp* I'm seeing a theme. There are soooo many parents out there who are overwhelmed by the state of their homes, families, workload, and quarantine schooling.
For anyone new to this lifestyle, I can imagine...
Sovereign Schooling and the "New Normal"
* Sovereign Schooling is Article 2 in the Sovereign Series. Read the first in the series: What is Sovereignty? Claiming Freedom in All Areas of Your Life
Judging by the comments and questions that are circling...
Are we all born as creative geniuses? In a talk at TEDX Tucson, Dr. George Land reveals shocking results of a creativity test that was initially developed for NASA, but lead to the testing of school children.
After proving successful...
By Katherine Megear
A couple weeks ago we went camping at Krause Springs. Guinevere, age 6, decided she wanted to jump off this twenty-foot-high cliff into the water, after watching several kids take the plunge. When she asked me, looking...
Compulsory public school is widely thought of as something that benefits society as a whole.
A reasonably well-educated populace makes a country run more smoothly...or, at least, that's the theory.
An Arizona State Representative wants to improve public school--by making it optional.
Yes,...
The majority of people have no idea what unschooling is, so I'm here to define it for you.
A lot of people think they have unschooling all figured out, but are actually stuck in varying states of misinformation.
Unschooling is not a...
Road schooling or world schooling, emphasises the idea that most of the learning in life takes place outside of a traditional classroom. While the amount of formal school work done will vary depending on the family, the uniqueness of...
Hold on--I'm about to disappoint all you high-achievers...but good grades are no measure of intelligence.
More importantly, good grades also don't actually have any bearing on one's success.
School does influence one’s real-world success–but not in the ways that one would...