Not Another Homeschool Blog

I posed the following question to each of my kids: Now that you are done homeschooling what do you think of it? My son, age 20 said, " I love that I was homeschooled, but if I knew then what I know now, I may have requested private school for high school" .  He felt that he would have had an easier transition time into college if he was forced to have a more stringent time in high school, both socially and academically.  He added however, "at the time, you couldn't have gotten me to go to any formal school though, so I don't know how that would have worked" .  I will add here that elementary school was traumatic and he still hadn't gotten over it by the time he started 9th grade. My daughter, age 18 said, "I am glad that I was homeschooled, but it is not for everyone.  I believe it was best for me though and what I needed" .  She added, "I feel like every homeschooler should have some kind of community though, like a high school pr...

So, while I was homeschooling, I also worked from home as content writer for numerous websites.  When the economy went bad several things happened: 1st: Web writing became popular and I noticed a glut of new available writers began to lower the amount of money I could make on my articles. 2nd: The writing on the web became bad. All the new writers in the market resulted in quite a lot of poorly written articles. 3rd: The web revolted.  Good in particular thought up PANDA which resulted in "Content Mills" as they were called being being penalized. This all resulted in a long slow decent of the industry. It seems the final foot has fallen, and Yahoo has closed Yahoo Content Network and Yahoo Voices. The good news is that they returned my 1800+ articles to me.  They didn't have to, but they did. (I've been writing for them since 2006.) So here's where I could use some help.  I am creating a blog/website to feature all of my best articles. I am letting the...

My daughter goes to a women's college, and I noticed when stalking Pinterest images related to the school, a campaign for feminism .  It looks like this: and this and this. As I matter of fact, I had to work really hard to find some that didn't straight out say "I need feminism because I was raped or molested, or assaulted, and no one cared", but could not. .  If I was to sum up the gist of the majority of the captions, they said: "I need feminism because my rights to my own

There would be a whole lot more homeschoolers if more parents only had the time.  Based on the messages I receive regularly there are oodles of oodles of single parents who desperately want to homeschool their kids, but there's that little pesky problem called work that keeps getting in the way. One of my very best friends has managed to homeschool her kids due to perfect timing of ages, and a moderate amount of flexibility in her job.  But most parents can't get together either the smallest amount luck and flexibility and family support to get it done. That leaves parents asking the question, (the most recent email I've received) asking where to find certified teachers that would take on 4-5 kids.... because they want their kids to be part of that group.  The problem is that they are few and far apart. Before we started homeschooling, my husband asked the same questions.  He knew we could not afford a private teacher, but felt that surely we could split the co...