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https://reason.com/2024/08/05/homeschooling-grows-as-an-escape-from-failing-schools-and-curriculum-fights/

Homeschooling grows as an escape from failing schools and curriculum fights The ranks of homeschoolers have again begun to rise, further evidence that DIY education is here to stay.

Great idea!

How to Start a Family Book Club - Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers Studies show parents, families, and even society at large benefit from families reading together! We will show you how to start a Family Book Club!

So true.

A great reminder as we get closer to the new homeschool year!

https://www.parents.com/homeschooling-what-to-know-8657167?

Everything You Need To Know About Homeschooling Get a closer look at why families choose homeschooling, how common homeschooling is, and what homeschooling really looks like for kids and parents.

Great for adults and high school

American Citizenship and Its Decline | Hillsdale College Online Courses Learn how the rights of American citizens are threatened by a ruling class that seeks to make our government unaccountable to the people.

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Virginia School Prosecuted Homeschoolers. Now It Wants to Enroll Them. Franklin County is now recruiting for a virtual academy.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/9/how-homeschool-movement-can-stay-relevant/

How the homeschool movement can stay relevant So many people started homeschooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, and a lot of them realized exactly what my parents did — homeschooling with others can be really good for parents and kids alike.

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With summer around the corner, it’s a good time to remember we don’t need to entertain our kids.
We are a society afraid of boredom. We are addicted to entertainment and the stimulation of certain neuro centers in the brain. We are losing the ability to just be.
Studies have shown that boredom stimulates problem solving areas of our brains that cannot be accessed in any other way. Boredom begets creativity and new thought pathways.
When we deny our children their God-given right to boredom, we are restricting their development.
Do you remember the hours you spent in boredom as a child? We would daydream in the waiting room, stare at the dust motes dancing in the sunlight, invent new games, draw, read, create, research. We were building important neuro pathways. Did we whine to our parents that we were bored? Of course! But we quickly learned that this would only lead to chores or being forced outside regardless of temperature or weather.
When we had a question, there was no Google. We had to ask another person, look it up in a book, or, gasp, ruminate on it until we found the answer within our own brains. We developed common sense and logic, because we were experiencing the world firsthand and engaging our problem solving.
So, don’t be afraid of boredom! Every generation before this one has had to learn to live with it. And they have benefited because of it.
Give your children the gift of boredom.

🖼: In Hard Luck by John G. Brown 1904

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Good idea!

Mother Culture® Moment
NEED-A-NANNY ?
Although I gave my children my "freshest brightest hours" and enjoyed reading aloud to my children every day, I took advantage of audio. On a hot and humid, or stormy afternoon this AUDIO became the children’s NANNY.

The children would listen to a sweet story or a dramatic episode of a "Your Story Hour" biography, while their hands were creatively busy
. . . . . .drawing,
. . . . . .painting,
. . . . . .molding clay figures,
. . . . . .designing their own paper dolls,
. . . . . .or building Lego.
Their imaginations would be at work “seeing” the story in their mind’s eye and sympathizing with the characters.

While the children were occupied with “Nanny,” I could
. . . . . .clean out a closet,
. . . . . .try out a new recipe,
. . . . . .map out books for an upcoming school year,
. . . . . or take some delightful moments for my own play.

©Karen Andreola, 2018
Painting: Francois-Louis La fant de Metz (1814-1892)

I agree

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The most powerful way to respond when your kid gives up If your kid gives up when things get hard, they might need to develop a growth mindset. Use this powerful trick to teach them to keep trying.

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@ A Homemade Education Press

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The Craft-at-Home Family

I worked in schools for over 2 decades. My kids are homeschooled. When my kids were forced to remote learning, I noticed they were thriving. We decided to homeschool and prioritize travel and safety for them.

Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers: Insights and Forecasts from The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine - PR.com The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, the premier trade publication for homeschool families, has released an exhaustive analysis of the homeschool market's...

Mother Culture® Moment
TEACHING is Mustard-Seed-Work
By sowing seeds of IDEAS, how does our garden grow?

1 . . A child receives an IDEA with interest.
2 . . By association, another facet is added.
3 . . The more he learns, the more associations his mind makes.
4 . . We can TRUST in this invisible Mustard-Seed-Work. Why?

As Charlotte Mason states, “it is the very nature of an idea to grow: as the vegetable [seed is packed with nutrition] that it lives by, so fairly implant an idea in the child’s mind, and it will [produce] its own food, grow, and bear fruit in the form of a succession of kindred ideas.” *CM Vol.1 p.173

“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed.… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.” *CM Vol.6 p.39

Keep sowing in faith, my friends. A Christian mother's Mustard-Seed-Work is for the Kingdom of God. (Matt 13:31,32)
Message by Karen Andreola, author of the book, "Mother Culture® – For a Happy Homeschool."
Painting by Lee Lufkin Kaula

The late John Taylor Gatto -- former NYC and New York State "Teacher of the Year"

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WHICH is KEY to LEARNING: 1, 2, or 3 ?
. You've read that children thrive upon what is presented to them through the literary language of their living books.
. You've probably also read that with living books children, curious to learn, narrate “with power, clearness, vivacity and charm.” *
With this in mind, is the BIGGEST KEY to learning making sure it is:

1 - - - Fun and easy ?
2 - - - Grueling and tedious ?
3 - - - Interesting and various ?

“We must get rid of the notion that to learn the 'three R’s' or the Latin grammar well, a child should learn these and nothing else. It is as true for children as for ourselves that, the wider the range of interests, the more intelligent is the apprehension of each,” says Charlotte Mason. **

. . . It's 3. You guessed it.
And because it's 3, children will apply themselves and put effort even into a "hard" subject if it is (to some degree) INTERESTING. Interest comes first. Learning is delight for all people, young and old, when we intuitively sense a wide range of interesting subjects feeding our soul.

*Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Ed, p.63
**Charlotte Mason, School Ed, p.209.
©Karen Andreola, 2018 (In the growing complexity of today's homeschool world, I seek to simplify things for you.)
Painting: Henry Mosler