Abundance of Time

Perhaps the biggest difference between homeschooling and more mainstream forms of education is the quantity of time as a resource. I recently came across this quote and it resonated with me, especially in the context of homeschooling: Someone who experiences time as a scarce commodity…is creating a completely different personal reality from someone who perceives …

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Subpar Parks

“One star reviews don’t tell the whole story,” is the reminder I get when I read Amber Share’s delightfully clever book, “Subpar Parks.”  The project started as a joke about the negative reviews people put online about National Parks.  Amber took her graphic design skills and created artful hand-lettered travel-poster style images, poetically enshrining the …

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Forbidden Words

Throwing down the pencil in disgust and tossing aside the papers in frustration, my child unleashes a stream of forbidden words: “I hate this; I can’t understand this; this is impossible; I’ll never understand.” Moaned in one continuous exhale, my child repeats what has become a familiar script.  She’s only 13, yet she is convinced …

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Teaching AP This Fall

I hope that my article in the Fall 2022 edition of “This Old Schoolhouse Magazine” inspires many readers to try teaching an AP class at home this year. I feel like our at-home AP instruction has been the best preparation for college and the best way to focus our high school studies. Though it may …

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