‘HOMESCHOOLING LIFESTYLE’ Archives
Don’t Confuse Homeschooling Cause and Effect
Don't Confuse Homeschooling Cause and Effect By Linda Dobson There's a notion floating around out there that there's something "different" about families who choose homeschooling. Jedediah Purdy, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (Knopf) and a young man who experienced homeschooling in West Virginia [...]
Unlearning to Learn about Learning
Unlearning (to Learn about Learning) By Linda Dobson Even if you haven't specifically studied education, you've learned a lot about learning over the years. Remember how we create a habit by engaging in an activity so long and so often that we begin to do it automatically? Well, the way we parents think about learning has become, for the most [...]
Meet Homeschooling Kids: Makonnen David BlakeHannah
Meet Homeschooling Kids: Makonnen David BlakeHannah Business Not Quite as Usual Part 2 of 2 Part Two of Makonnen’s homeschooling story – including a "where is he now" update! By Linda Dobson "It's really all about my thirst for knowledge," says Makonnen about homeschooling. "Whatever I've wanted to do, I've been able to do. [...]
Meet Homeschooling Kids: Makonnen David Blake Hannah
Meet Homeschooling Kids: Makonnen David Blake Hannah Business Not Quite as Usual Part 1 of 2 By Linda Dobson Makonnen David Blake Hannah wakes to the sunshine over Kingston, Jamaica, eats breakfast, and soon gets to work talking on the phone with business partners or providing updates as a consultant to Jamaica's minister of technology [...]
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 [...]
