Archive for March, 2010

Spring Homeschool Carnival

Hosted this week at The HomeSpun Life. Enjoy!
I am hostessing the Carnival of Homeschooling this week and will be having many homeschool parents and potential homeschool parents visiting my blog. The last time I hosted the carnival I offered cyber coffee to those arriving, however I don’t have any brewed this time. My apologies. I [...]

Where Homeschooling is Outlawed

Via Albert Mohler at Crosswalk.com
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike may have been considered outside the norms of civil society in their native Germany, but not in Morristown, Tennessee, where they and their five children now live. The Romeikes are homeschoolers who are determined to provide the education for their children, ranging in age from two to [...]

Stereotypes of homeschooled children

A web letter by 13 year-old Sarah Prater via The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.
I’m 13 and have been home-schooled for eight years. I think people need to know more about home schooling because of the unfounded stereotypes that seem to label every child who is home-schooled. While some people do home school primarily because [...]

Homeschooling may harm our democracy?

Michael Salmonowicz via The Report Card – True/Slant stirs a hornet’s nest. I don’t feel a need to respond here. You can read it yourself. There are already many retorts and (responses from the author) in the comments section.
homeschoolWhile so many K-12 students in the United States struggle academically, and so many schools struggle [...]

Homeschool class reunion

Via Suburban Journals
Every time Lydia Wood visits her mother and siblings, it’s a class reunion.
From the sixth grade until college, Wood, 23, was homeschooled by her mother, Jo Ann Powers, in the family’s Ballwin home.
Wood’s sister, Gracie Powers, 17, and brother, Luke Powers, 13, are currently being taught by their mother. Read more…

Carnival of Homeschool: Oddities Edition

Welcome to the carnival of homeschool oddities edition. I was trying to categorize all the wonderful posts submitted to us this week when I noticed many of them defied categorization. They are truly oddities. (Am I right, many homeschoolers would consider themselves oddities?) Coincidentally, I also remembered seeing some truly odd items on amazon recently [...]

Irish-Celtic-Gaelic roots baby name of the day: Siobhan

  This month we’re celebrating the Irish with baby names of the day that have Celtic and Gaelic roots. The baby name of the day is… Siobhan. Siobhan is a traditional Irish girls name pronounced "shu VAHN." According to Irish Fun Fac…

Coming soon to Disneyland: A look at the newest attractions from ‘World of Color’ to ‘Cars Land’

Rendering of one of the scenes that will be part of Disney’s “World of Color" that opens this year. Disney Enterprises, Inc.   Related articles Disneyland 101: Do the Disneyland resort hotels have cribs? Details of ‘Give a Day…

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