the year that was…
2008I have been blogging a wee while, since February 18, 2006. Back then my blog was called wotsitgonnabe, and I had no clue what it was going to become. It began as a way of figuring out what was going on in my life at the time. I was homeschooling my eldest and youngest daughter’s at the time and was about to hit rock-bottom. You know when you give and give and give and there’s not much left to give any more. I really enjoyed homeschooling my girls but after the schoolwork was done, I r
Three years
January 6th will be the 3rd anniversary for the Carnival of Homeschooling, please consider submitting a post. The Cates will be hosting the CoH.
So Long ‘08
2008 was an interesting year for me. Kinda stressful, pretty wild, really joyful. We welcomed and baptized our third baby and experienced the bittersweet, rapid stream of first year milestones. We got a job promotion and moved nearly halfway across the southern US and back to friends and family. We made great new friends and left some behind. We started our homeschooling adventure- not to mention my Summa Mama adventure. WINK. We cried, laughed, voted, learned, received and observed this yea
Homeschoolers’ group gives introduction at senior center (Issaquah Press)
NEW — 1:35 p.m. Dec. 31, 2008 The Issaquah chapter of the Homeschoolers’ Support Association presents “Introduction to Homeschoooling,” with guest speaker Paula Harper-Christensen, from 7-9 p.m. Jan. 6 at the Issaquah Valley Senior Center, 75 N.E. Creek Way. The program will cover the essentials of homeschooling and the variety of approaches for new homeschoolers, plus new
Book Review: First Comes Marriage
As a homeschooling mom I’ve known families who have taken an active role in helping their children find suitable spouses. Though I am eager for all my kids to find the right spouses when the time is right, I’ve never been especially keen on the idea of an arranged marriage. Seems like too big a decision to hand off to others. And yet a few weeks ago when I randomly clicked on an AOL story that featured First Comes Marriage, I was fascinated by the author’s twist.
The Call to Dunkirk
I don’t think the case for homeschooling is made very effectively in the video above from this website. For one thing, did you see the argument that somehow because a child may be in public education many more hours per week than in Sunday School, that the odds of the child becoming a strong Christian are absolutely terribly low? Last I checked, I serve a god who can do all things. Now, that doesn’t mean that I’m going to send my kid to the local Wiccan private school (how many of those are t
Why My Daughter Has Crayola Tattoos or, Balance and the Work at Home Parent
If you work at home with small children, chances are that you know the value of time. In my world, I know that there’s never quite enough of it. Deadlines loom while snacks, diapers, and phone calls from my editor demand my attention - often at the same time. A Day in the Life of a Stay-at-Home Parent I work more than full time from home, with a 2 year old and an infant in tow. My husband works full time outside the home. Oh, and did I mention that we started homeschooling this year on the
Getting Organized the Easy Way
Today, I’m posting an email I sent to my email loop. I thought it might be helpful to others, so here it is: One person wrote in to ask for help with homeschooling. She had a ton of great resources and lots of great ideas for teaching her children, but had not implemented them. She realized she was disorganized and unproductive and feared for her children’s education.
Why Homeschool?: Part 2
“Why Homeschool?: The Prologue”"Why Homeschool?: Part 1″I slowly began to realize that I am a control freak would like very much to be able to fill my child’s mind up with information in a manner that conformed to her parents’ wishes and standards, as opposed to the wishes and standards of the National Education Agency or the State Board of Education, not that I considered those wishes bad (at that time). Just that… well… that whole control freak thing.By the time, MaddieLynn was four years
Kan. mom jailed for contempt
Kan. mom jailed for contemptA homeschooling mother whose daughter was removed from their home following a mistaken truancy report was jailed for contempt Friday after refusing to say where the 14-year-old has been since fleeing state custody in October.Bambi Baker-Hazen said she was invoking her right to protect her daughter, Ashton Baker, from what she called abuse in the state’s child welfare system. The girl had spent 47 days in the Wichita Children’s Home before running away Oct. 6.
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