Homeschool Fiction

Click here for more great “20 Questions Answers from Unschoolers” around the world.
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DoLifeRight: Tell me a bit about yourself and your family (name, children’s ages, where you live, etc.).
Deb: Deb and Rick married 15½ yrs, DS Joshua nearing 11, living in eastern CT with a 7 yr old lab mix and assorted fish. I work [...]

When I was pregnant with my oldest child, I spent a lot of time researching pregnancy, birth, and caring for a newborn.  We received a lot of pressure at that time to have a variety of prenatal tests done to me and to the unborn baby.
Unsure of what tests to do and what ones not [...]

What’s holding you back from fulfilling your dreams?
Think for a second.
Now think a little while longer.
Coming up with excuses?
Then, it’s probably you that is getting in your way.
For me, I often find my own procrastination, worry of failure, and worry of exposing myself (and being made fun of or ridiculed for my choices) are the [...]

All of theses photos were taken on my land in southern Arizona.

As I’m sure everyone reading this knows, yesterday was Earth Day!
I love Earth Day!  But, honestly, I live every day like it was Earth Day — I did nothing different.
Check these links for more on how to live an environmentally proud lifestyle:

DoLifeRight article from last year
How the First Earth Day Came About – Nice bit [...]

Click here for more “20 Questions Answers from Unschoolers” around the world.
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DoLifeRight: Tell me a bit about yourself and your family (name, children’s ages, where you live, etc.).
Jeanine Byers Hoag: I am Jeanine Byers Hoag, a married homeschooling mom with two children. My daughter is 14, my son is 8. I live in GA and am homeschooling my son.

DoLifeRight: [...]

I was online earlier today, catching up on e-mail, sending out a myriad of “congrats” and “that’s great” comments to friends who have been doing really fantastic things lately.
I also noticed that I received several e-mails saying similar things to me.
How different this way of living is than what we are told the “grown up [...]

We’ve all heard the horror stories of lost data from computers.  It may have even happened to you.  Losing the data on your computer systems can be tragic.  Don’t let this happen to you!
Here is what my family does for our multitude of computers:

UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply … to protect against power spikes.
Backup onto [...]

A week or so ago, my local Unschooling group had the opportunity to have Darleen from Forever Wild come and talk to our group. She met us at a local park and brought a rehabilitated barn owl named Elmira for us to meet.  Her talk was interesting and informative and the perfect thing for us [...]

Do you have a big goal or dream in your life that you’ve been thinking about in the back of your mind for years?  Have you always thought that you would be able to run a marathon, write a book, paint a masterpiece, start a business, or get your dream job if only you had [...]