http://www.parentatthehelm.com Your Family's Incredible Lifestyle Begins HERE - With Homeschooling Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:42:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7908/4-top-homeschooling-performance-indicators/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7908/4-top-homeschooling-performance-indicators/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:43:07 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7908 The article, "In Praise of Homeschools," was written by Aaron Smith, who has an MBA from Texas A&M University and resides in Houston, Texas. (That's not important, just interesting. [g]) The opening paragraph: The most admirable group of entrepreneurs is perhaps the least appreciated. Homeschool parents, or parentrepreneurs, are not waiting for...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7908/4-top-homeschooling-performance-indicators/feed/ 0 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7895/national-school-choice-week-january-22-28-2012/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7895/national-school-choice-week-january-22-28-2012/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:44:19 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7895 Since the organizers of National School Choice Week were kind enough to include homeschooling among possible effective choices, I thought it would be good to let the homeschooling/unschooling community know that it's coming up fast! As an advocate - and advocate of advocates (!) - I think it's a great opportunity to...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7895/national-school-choice-week-january-22-28-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7830/congrats-homeschooled-miami-dolphin-jason-taylor/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7830/congrats-homeschooled-miami-dolphin-jason-taylor/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:42:22 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7830 Because of the wonderful response to yesterday's post about the stories of homeschooled adults (thank you!), and because homeschooled Miami Dolphin Jason Taylor just retired from football this weekend (perhaps; sometimes players come back!), I thought this would be a good time to share Jason's story with our readers. I interviewed Jason and his mom in1999 or 2000. I want to give a great big thank you to Hazel, who worked with Miami Dolphins security at the time. I don't know how many times I pestered this poor woman in the locker room, but she always left a note on Jason's locker for me. Jason finally called just before bedtime one night in the 11th hour of the book's deadline. My youngest answered the phone...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7830/congrats-homeschooled-miami-dolphin-jason-taylor/feed/ 2 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7812/what-do-homeschooled-adults-have-to-say/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7812/what-do-homeschooled-adults-have-to-say/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:46:37 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7812 Sometimes, in the fear and anxiety ridden time of considering homeschooling for their families, parents torture themselves with "What if..." questions that are just plain unanswerable, at least specifically unanswerable, before the journey has even begun. The wisdom that comes with time and experience, however, shows there is one answer, at least a non-specific answer, to all of those what-ifs:...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7812/what-do-homeschooled-adults-have-to-say/feed/ 6 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7798/no-child-left-behind-a-lost-decade-for-educational-progress/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7798/no-child-left-behind-a-lost-decade-for-educational-progress/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:41:20 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7798 The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law “failed badly both in terms of its own goals and more broadly,” leading to a decade of educational stagnation. That is the central conclusion of a major new report marking NCLB’s tenth anniversary. President George W. Bush signed the program into law on January 8, 2002. The report, “NCLB’s Lost Decade for Educational Progress,” summarizes data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and dozens of independent studies. It was written by...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7798/no-child-left-behind-a-lost-decade-for-educational-progress/feed/ 0 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7731/2011-top-11-posts-from-parent-at-the-helm/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7731/2011-top-11-posts-from-parent-at-the-helm/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:22:27 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7731 2011: Top 11 Posts from Parent at the Helm As we rapidly close in on the end of 2011 (where did it go?), it’s a good time to review where we’ve been. I decided to do a little research to see which were the most viewed Parent at the Helm posts of 2011, an interesting [...]]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7731/2011-top-11-posts-from-parent-at-the-helm/feed/ 0 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7748/momma-is-that-you/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7748/momma-is-that-you/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:28:42 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7748 Momma, Is That You? You live in Kentucky and your little boy is nine years-old. He's an autistic student. He attends school in the Mercer County school system.]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7748/momma-is-that-you/feed/ 2 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7637/are-standardized-tests-destroying-lives/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7637/are-standardized-tests-destroying-lives/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:43:27 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7637 Over the last few decades, our public school system has devolved into a standardized test driven nightmare for children, families, and our society. More recently, political powers-that-be are pushing to additionally make standardized tests a nightmare for teachers, too, with increasing cries...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7637/are-standardized-tests-destroying-lives/feed/ 2 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7589/when-a-nations-head-of-education-chooses-homeschooling-it-hits-the-fan/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7589/when-a-nations-head-of-education-chooses-homeschooling-it-hits-the-fan/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:40:10 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7589 By Linda Dobson I became aware of Prime Minister - and Education Minister - Holness' decision to homeschool last week when a friend in Jamaica contacted me. She let me know she had loaned Prime Minister Holness one of my books. She said he still hasn't returned it yet, kindly insinuating that maybe the book (and hers!) had something to do with...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7589/when-a-nations-head-of-education-chooses-homeschooling-it-hits-the-fan/feed/ 1 http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7580/bridging-the-great-schooling-divide-2/ http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7580/bridging-the-great-schooling-divide-2/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:29:15 +0000 Grandma Linda http://www.parentatthehelm.com/?p=7580 It stands to reason that if we parents were taught dependency on others, we are likely to feel very vulnerable when people waving college degrees and making livings in certain subject areas come along. We don't need to take responsibility for any of the dozens of things that go wrong in life. As long as we consult...]]> http://www.parentatthehelm.com/7580/bridging-the-great-schooling-divide-2/feed/ 4