Just Enough and Nothing More

We’ve all experienced it - that fear, in the middle of the night, that the decision to homeschool will ruin our kids. Here’s a trick to deal with homeschool fear and anxiety.

Managing video games consumption is not equivalent to teaching our kids to stay away from cocaine.

There is a logical reason why so many people fear homeschooling will lead to abuse—our brain’s illogical reaction to the unknown and the unexpected.

In the past week or so, there have been many homeschooling articles posted in local and national papers. Is this a sign of something changing? A coincidence? Or just more of the same?

My approach to researching educational options was to focus on what the actual results were, and figure out best way to get the results we wanted. Taking that approach, I was forced to admit homeschooling is simply one of the best ways to achieve a “good” liberal, scientific, worldly education, if that’s truly what a family wants to achieve. Anyone who has an open mind, and looks at the actual evidence will come to this conclusion too, simply because that’s what the facts point to, regardless of what we might want the truth to be.

Grace emailed me with a question about mom making money and homeschooling. I emailed her my experience, but I thought that she’d benefit from a wide range of opinions. Can you help Grace think of ways to make money while homeschooling?

Are homeschoolers more likely to be addicted to video games? What does it mean if they play hours and hours of video games? How can we tell if they are addicted?

The answer to this one simple question can be one of the biggest pieces of the homeschool puzzle.

So, take a moment and ask yourself - are you happy?

My son learned to tie his shoes yesterday. It took him all of 1 minute. He’s 10.

Burping is rude, don’t call someone after 9pm, work hard to get ahead, you can’t go through life doing only things that make you happy, do what you’re supposed to do. Where do all these “rules” come from?