Posts Tagged ‘homeschooling books’
Entering the Fray: The Homeschooling Is Undemocratic Myth
Entering the Fray: The Homeschooling Is Undemocratic Myth By Linda Dobson At first, I figured the article on Slate by Dana Goldstein was so oddly perverse that if I quietly ignored it, it would go away. No such luck. Days later and the slash-and-burn homeschooling article still gets the goat of many, me included. That someone in the year [...]
Homeschooling: Trusting In Yourself and Your Child
Homeschooling: Trusting In Yourself and Your Child By Linda Dobson John Holt, often credited as the "granddaddy of homeschooling," in his landmark book How Children Learn (Dell, 1967), boiled down the complicated business of helping children learn into just two words: "Trust children." This sounds so simple, but in our culture it just may [...]
CHILDREN: The Dumbing-Down, Doping-Up and Spirit-Crushing
CHILDREN: The Dumbing-Down, Doping-Up and Spirit-Crushing By Linda Dobson If it’s about children and/or education I’ll read it; mainstream or alternative, left or right, a million subscribers or two, doesn’t matter. I’ve done this long enough that it’s relatively easy to stay objective and open-minded, ignoring rhetoric while [...]
Meet Homeschooling Kids: Taj Schottland
Meet Homeschooling Kids: Taj Schottland Ideals in Motion By Linda Dobson After reading The Hobbit, a book declared his new favorite, Taj is now deep into King Arthur, the 10 year-old homeschooling boy explains from his home in the Brattleboro, Vermont, countryside. An early reader, Taj also emerged as an early public speaker, tagging along at [...]
6 FREE Spring Homeschooling Learning Activities that Are Fun, Too!
6 FREE Spring Homeschooling Learning Activities that Are Fun, Too! By Linda Dobson Because homeschooling families place learning at the core of their lifestyles, they become very adept at finding/seeing/inventing homeschooling learning activities they know will inspire their children. It's true, all children are different, but it's quite [...]
