Welcome to the September 13, 2011 edition of carnival of homeschooling. In reading the entries submitted to this Carnival of Homeschooling, I got to thinking about the different ways you can categorize homeschooling. Then, I got to thinking that it's pretty darn impossible to categorize. After all, homeschooling isn't a segment of our lives, it IS our lives and to me homeschooling is more like living and breathing and less like a thing we do. Regardless, I did my best to present this carnival in bite size pieces giving you home stuff , school stuff , somewhere in between stuff , and other valuable stuff . Enjoy! As a little bonus, I am including some FREE KINDLE BOOKS you can use in your homeschooliing journey. You don't need a Kindle to use them. Home Stuff Cristina Payne presents Perpetual Motion posted at Home Spun Juggling , saying, "Contemplations on the loose tile in the bathroom." Fred L...
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I am in total agreement with you!
Eric Novak
My parents felt that we had better warn them that there was some material at the beginning of the video that wasn't appropriate for a younger audience.
Eric Novak
To the writer who was positing the objection to homeschooling as isolating and indoctrinating then added parents who travel are the only ones who could expose their children to other cultures...
How is that an objection to homeschooling? It's rather an endorsement. Parents whose children are imprisoned in public schools are relegated to traveling only at peak times, which automatically limits their choices and opportunities for exposure. Homeschooling families can (and often do) take their school on the road, integrating their travels into their curriculum. The history, economy, culture and geography of the places visited become the topics of the hour. The traveling homeschooled students thereby learning far more about each destination than a family traveling for vacation.
It's the children stuck in school, isolated with their age-mates and kept away from people of differing ages, bored silly and wasting their days while planning what to do *after* school who need a break. They're being indoctrinated by their government and teachers' unions rather than having an opportunity to question and challenge all that they encounter.