Do Life Right

Are you enjoying having your kids home from school? Do you consider your children the coolest people in the universe?
Did you know that you don’t have to send them back to school? It is possible to legally homeschool in all 50 U.S. states and many (most?) countries around the world.
Homeschooling comes in all shapes and [...]

Have you had the chance to browse through the HUGE list of citizen recommendations on Change.org yet?  I love their question:  What do You want to Change in the World?
There are a variety of worthy ideas to support on that site, but only the top 10 (as of midnight tonight - December 31, 2008) will [...]

Since before my family was officially a homeschooling family, I’ve heard the stories of “poor stifled homeschooled children”.  Who hasn’t?  It’s these poor kids (well, actually their parents) who give homeschoolers a bad name.  I’ve met them, they absolutely exist — so I’m not about to tell you that they don’t.  I will say though [...]

I recently heard a homeschooling mother say that her family unschooled during the summer and Christmas vacations.  I’ve also heard parents of schooled (public and private) say similarly.  The homeschooling mother’s reasoning was that she believed that nothing can be learned during those times anyway since the kids are distracted by other things, plus she [...]

I’ve been asked the above question (or similar) hundreds of times since I started telling people that we were a homeschooling family.  Just about every kind grandmother at stores or check-out personnel ask me this when I go out shopping with my kids in the middle of a school day.  Very few are rude about [...]

We recently hosted a tie-dyeing party for our local Unschooling group.  Since we’ve tie-dyed a lot over the years, my older daughter wanted to do something a bit different.  We decided to “double dye” a few items.

First we dyed the items as usual using Procion dye and directions from the Dharma Trading Company (both the [...]

Should elementary school children be sent home with over an hour’s worth of homework every night? Should that work count for something? Is an elementary school child’s opinion worthy of respect? Is “green”ness an issue we are forcing schooled children to think is not real and worthy? Are school administrators and [...]

My kids are big fans of scientific crafts. Part of a successful homeschooling household is to keep a lot of ingredients on hand so that experiments can happen whenever the kids want them to.
Our ingredients for experiments arsenal has hundreds of things right now, but the core consists of:

baking soda
vinegar
pipettes
test tubes
food coloring and/or color [...]

An adult recently asked my younger daughter what she’d been learning lately. She stared at the adult and was silent.
Duh, what hadn’t she been learning lately? I thought to myself, not in sarcasm either since I knew the adult had my daughter’s best interest in mind, she is just naive about how learning actually [...]

A big part of my children’s lives are movies. We’ve met many homeschooling families who either don’t allow movies at all into their children’s lives, restrict movies to only “educational ones”, allow only one movie per week (or other predetermined timeframe), or at a minimum restrict the content of the movies the children watch [...]