‘HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES’ Archives
Transitioning To or From Homeschooling
Transitioning To or From Homeschooling by Linda Dobson Because education is a personal experience accomplished in myriad ways, and because scientists are still struggling to understand how it actually occurs, it is impossible to assume that any one child's transition to or from homeschooling is representative of all. It is important, [...]
Use the Theory of “Flow” In Your Family Learning Plan
Use the Theory of “Flow” In Your Family Learning Plan By Linda Dobson For those skeptics out there who still don’t believe learning can be fun, let me introduce you to Harvard professor Mihaly Csikezentmihalyi or, as I’ve come to know him, “Professor C,” a friend and colleague of Howard Gardner. In his life’s work Professor [...]
25 Ideas for Enjoying a Relaxed Learning Summer!
25 Ideas for Enjoying a Relaxed Learning Summer! By Linda Dobson Are you a homeschooler who follows a ten-month calendar? Have you grown curious about ditching text books and moving toward a less structured manner of homeschooling? Do you live in a state where the public education process is in an uproar, thinking you might want to skip it all [...]
Easy Homeschooling Starting Points: Simply Supply the Materials
Easy Homeschooling Starting Points: Simply Supply the Materials By Linda Dobson When a carpenter builds, a seamstress sews, or an EMT rescues, day's end brings accomplishment she can see and touch. Not so with your child. After a day of family learning activities, your youngster is still the same size [...]
DECLARATION OF EDUCATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
The Declaration of Educational Independence By Linda Dobson © 1997 WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for Families to dissolve the Educational Bands which have connected them to a faltering Society, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God [...]
