Not Another Homeschool Blog

Or rather, how successful was your homeschooling based on their college performance? A parents worth as homeschooling parents one could reason, could be determined by a student's success in further education... i.e. college. It almost feels like confession when I reply that the boy is hanging in there.  Now that I can add that the girl is kicking butt and taking names, the whole homeschooling experience seems more validated. But that's pretty unfair, isn't it. Fortunately for me, I have two kids.  If I only had the son, I might very well be self conscious  about not producing a super student as a result of my homeschooling...  God forbid a homeschooler be an average college student.  If I only had the girl, perhaps, I would be accepted as an homeschooling authority because my under-aged homeschooling daughter was doing an excellent job? Now that I have taken time to balance all my thoughts on the two kids and their experiences, it is clear to me that t...

The kids are packed back off to college for another semester...  My nest isn't exactly empty, but the people who live with me are only here part time to go to school, and are self sufficient... and I got really, really bored... and started noticing all the stuff that needed fixing around the house... So I decided that it is time for me to work. Not like I had been doing, writing articles and such, but if that still paid well, I gather I would still be doing it...  ( Thanks google ... it's been years since I've turned a profit doing the blogging/ web writing gig). So anyway, I have signed up for a real-estate class and expect to be licensed by spring. Wish me luck. I will continue to write about homeschooling and education, whenever the inspiration hits, and am working on finishing my e-books before I get too busy...

The new year has arrived rather quietly for me. All the activity in my house has died down as my extended family that stayed with me since summer got their own place just before Christmas.  I am happy, and I hope they are too. The kids are home, but not too active... they are still recovering from all of the activity of last semester.  They are trudging along through college, the younger one a bit more effortlessly than the older, which tells me that as I relaxed into homeschooling, the kids benefitted more. I.E. I was less stringent with the 2nd child than the first, and she used that extra freedom to her advantage... or.. it could just have nothing at all to do with me.... it could just be a product of their personalities or gender... who knows. As we head into another semester for my kids, I pray the younger one won't get too confident so that she slacks off, and the older will relax into the process of higher education, so that he might enjoy it, and intern find th...