One big homeschooling problem revolves around the questions: How can you avoid burn out? What can you do if you burn out? Before we can tackle these questions, we need to know what burn out is. Burn out: to fail, wear out, or become exhausted by reason of excessive demands on energy, strength or resources (Webster’s Unabridged […]
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Homeschooling: A Life-Style to Be Thankful For
How has homeschooling changed our life? That is a difficult question to answer, because our family knows no other life. We’ve been homeschooling forever, it seems… in any case since Miss 17 was old enough to attend junior kindergarten. So I’ll answer the related question: How would our lives be different if we […]
While Our Things Have Fairly Well-Defined Places, the Children are Free to Roam
Ever since I spent several sunny spring afternoons on my parent’s barn roof studying geography, I’ve understood that learning can happen anywhere. In fact, sometimes the unusual places get the best results. I got 100% on that course, an unheard-of mark in our high school. With that in mind, how do we organize our space […]