Posts Tagged ‘Home Education Press’
Transforming Family Life and Learning Through Homeschooling (Part Two of Two)
By Linda Dobson Not Doing School-at-Home As collective buyers of books, audio and video cassettes, games, computer software, and miscellaneous resources used in educating both parents and children, homeschoolers have a voracious appetite - and keen eye. Even though it's a recently recognized market, information to assist booksellers is [...]
Transforming Family Life And Learning Through Homeschooling (Part One of Two)
By Linda Dobson After all enjoy their fill of oatmeal and fruit, and the last child laces up his boots and adjusts his hat against the winds, a mom and her three school-aged children wave at the school bus lumbering by and head off for a walk in the woods, instead. The children grow increasingly excited as they spy the tracks of three [...]
Compelled to Attend: Part One
Compelled to Attend Part One of Three By Linda Dobson Can you think of a better way to insure that you will be “made” according to the dictates of others than by forcing you, by law, to appear at a government-funded, state-controlled institution where you spend a predetermined number of years as part of a crowd subject constant scrutiny [...]
America’s Public Schools
The public school system in this country is based on a false definition of education. Its path leads us to false goals. At the same time, the public school system does not follow the true meaning of education. Therefore, we are not educating our children at all. We are conditioning them. From The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family, [...]
Homeschooling Myth #3: Mom Needs to Be a Teacher
Myth #3: Mom needs to be a teacher. Those of us who started our homeschool journey with school-at-home were usually under the spell of this myth, too. Our conditioning led us to believe we had to don yet another hat and stand at the head of the class pouring forth [...]
