Homeschool Fiction

I’ve been asked the above question. Specifically about dairy and eggs, but I’ll extend it to meat, bugs, and honey as well. As Radical Unschoolers, we’ve promised our children they can make these types of decisions for themselves. Does this mean we leave them to fend for themselves? Not hardly. We’re there with them, every [...]

When we first declared ourselves a homeschooling family, the criticism we first heard was “But, you need to force your daughter to become more independent so that she grows up to be independent.” This one confused me. I understood the educational concerns, and even the socialization concerns (although we’ve since proven both concerns to be [...]

Antiquing paper can be lots of fun. We’ve done it for maps, party invitations, and, most recently, for making a poem/riddle look like it had been in the Goblet of Fire. My daughter’s Harry Potter class is having a Tri-Wizard Tournament. Being a planner, my daughter elected to help with the planning of the three [...]

I enjoy playing in Webkinz World every day (my kids like Webkinz a lot, but I think I like it more). Playing games on Webkinz is a meditative and relaxing part of my regular day. Everyone needs something in their day that is relaxing. Webkinz is one of mine. I also highly enjoy collecting lots [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about why millions of parents send their children to school. Before I actually had kids, I was one of those people that believed that school was necessary and inevitable for all children in order to grow and learn everything that is necessary in this world. In fact, my husband and [...]

Too many people today want to get a college degree (or even a high school diploma) in order to have that piece of paper. They’ve thought very little about actually receiving knowledge from the experience. They just need the paper for their resume. Information and knowledge can be found anywhere; it isn’t monopolized in school [...]

I’ve recently been judging a novel writing contest (which I cannot give out any details about, but, of course, it’s a great contest). I’m finding the judging to be loads of fun. I’m reading books that I normally would not read and that is always of great interest to me. I’ve found new favorite writers [...]

My daughters have been watching their Dad and I their whole lives. They live fully with us and are within hollering distance nearly 24 hours every single day. What this means on a day-to-day basis is that they see us in all our glory: the good and the bad. My husband and I work primarily [...]

I keep meeting people that smile politely at my ideas and feign interest, yet when push comes to shove they do nothing to change their ways to be more similar to mine. Nor do they do anything to help me and my causes. Makes me wonder about the art of persuasion. Just how does a [...]

Is Webkinz turning our gardens into secret gardens? When we logged in today to take care of our plants, we discovered that our gardens were missing! After many failed attempts, we weren’t able to even get to my youngest daughter’s garden to check it out… We had to make up a song about the occasion. [...]