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March 30th, 2012 As promised quite awhile ago, here is my final homeschooling post. (Our daughter is now a sophomore in college.) Our daughter was homeschooled from age three all the way through high school. She knew she wanted to go to college at an early age, so although our homeschooling style was very unstructured and eclectic, [...] July 30th, 2010 Here we have a few twigs added to the door and are checking it on the house to see how we like it.
This is the last summer before my daughter leaves for college. She will be a freshman at MIT in the fall. We are a homeschooling family, and I [...] September 5th, 2009 After a busy summer preparing for a teddy show, I am now preparing documents for our homeschooled daughter’s college applications. Because she is homeschooled, we are having to make documents for materials that the high schools typically supply to the colleges. These include creating our own homeschool transcript with descriptions of all classes, a read [...] July 7th, 2008
Daughter (age 5) and mom reading favorite “vampire” book together. Like many parents, we read to our daughter from the time she was a baby. She always loved books. As a one-year-old, she would toddle over to her low bookshelf, pick out a favorite book, and bring it to me [...] May 6th, 2008 Learning French at Home: It’s hard to find good options for learning a foreign language as a homeschooler. To me the best way to learn foreign languages is through immersion, or being in a situation where everyone is speaking that language exclusively. In school, there are daily classes that can be taught [...] March 19th, 2008
As a kid, I collected comic books. We had a big painted cabinet in the over-sized hallway of our St. Louis duplex with two shelves stuffed with over 200 comic books. When friends came over we hung out on the hallway floor and spent the day reading and playing board games (our other [...] March 5th, 2008
We have always homeschooled. Our daughter is now sixteen and looking back I see how much homeschooling, especially with an only child, has always been a fine balance. Sometimes unschooling — following the child’s lead — seemed perfect. There were many wonderful afternoons spent outside with magnifying glasses examining interesting objects of nature, lots of [...] |
 
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