‘HOMESCHOOLING LIFESTYLE’ Archives
Merry Christmas, Every One
I'll be home for Christmas You can count on me Please have snow and mistletoe And presents under the tree Christmas Eve will find me Where the love light beams I'll be home for Christmas If only in my dreams
They Know How to Balance a Checkbook and Do Their Own Laundry
Yes! Real life homeschooling families comin' at ya from Wisconsin's Lakeland Times.
Costa Rica #1 for Happiness on National Level (Where is the U.S.?)
"Why is Cost Rica Smiling?" asks Lisa Gale Garrigues in a recent Yes! Magazine article. When the New Economics Foundation released its second Happy Planet Index, "a ranking of countries based on their environmental impact and the health and happiness of their citizens," Costa Rica and its 4 millions citizens were voted #1. The index ranks 143 [...]
Advice on the Homeschooling Lifestyle from Malaysia
The following question from an interview with David Tan, a homeschooling advocate in Malaysia, was snipped from a homeschooling blog in the same country, Parent Works. The entire interview is a good read, both for those thinking about homeschooling and all of you veterans out there, too - great job, David! What advice do you have for other [...]
A Christmas Eve Tradition of Community Service
I remembered that someone had submitted a Christmas idea for The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas when I put that together in 2002. Here it is for your consideration during the week of Christmas, 2009. The idea was submitted by Athena Dalrymple of Columbia, Maryland. Each Christmas Eve, drop off gift-wrapped new or almost-new books at a [...]
