Organically Inclined

Each year before the official first day of school, I have a few doubts. I wonder, yet again, if I am doing the right thing by keeping my boys home and educating them here. It’s not so much that I doubt my ability to do it - I just feel a little bad that they [...]

I will admit that I always feel a little guilty on the “First Day of School” in our town. We live in a very small town and all of the kids go to the local school, so all of my kids friends go there as well. The only homeschoolers we know live in other towns. [...]

I have avoided writing about the “socialization” of my homeschoolers for a very long time. Mostly because I think it’s a dumb argument. Sorry - am I being too blunt? Just because I educate my children at home (I actually do not like the word homeschool, as it denotes that I would do something like [...]

Once in a while I get the bug to be more organized - particularly in homeschool matters. I start to feel like maybe I’m not doing enough to keep everything together, especially after I read a few homeschool blogs or go to one of any number of sites that have all sorts of organizational pages [...]

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Just read this and you’ll understand why my kids don’t go to public school anymore!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2007/10/24/notes102407.DTL

Warning: This is not an instruction manual as to how to unschool your teen.
I get a lot of questions about “how” I homeschool (which is the preferred method of thought about what we do) my oldest son, Matt, who is 15. I also unschool my almost 3 year old and 9 year old and my [...]