Our family enjoyed a weeklong beach vacation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with our great homeschooling family friends who invited us along to this annual get-away for their family. We have three sets of children who “match up” as friends: our daughters (16 and 17), our teen sons (13 and 15), and our […]
This is the “final chapter” on my thoughts on the post that JoVe from Tricotomania wrote called “Contemplations on the School Year.”
In her post, JoVe considers how the impact of the school schedule can possibly migrate to the way we look at progression and grade classification with this comment:
I suspect that this calendar pressure also […]
Today is my sweet Adam’s birthday. Many would find our use of “sweet” an anomoly, since he frightens most people with his intense personality (because of how autism affects him). But, when you get to know him by loving him and learning with him, you fall in love. (A young lady from our church just […]
As some are looking back at the five year anniversary of 9-11, I thought I would take the opportunity to share our memories of that time. In 2001, our family had been homeschooling for nine years and one of the benefits we enjoyed was our family togetherness. But, a few months before September, I thought […]
It is common in autism to have low muscle tone. The reason it occurs is that often, our children don’t do the typical day-to-day physical activities that we all take for granted: running, climbing, exploring, skipping, gathering, jumping, poking . . . that overall general “business” that we all expect in toddlerhood and beyond. The […]
This is a continuation of my thoughts on the post that JoVe from Tricotomania wrote called “Contemplations on the School Year.”
In regard to the wonderful opportunity homeschooling provides in travel year-round, JoVe wrote:
First of all, let me say that one of the positive benefits of homeschooling for me is the ability to do things (particularly […]
I’m (hopefully) going to write a shorter post today because Eli has been asking me now for a couple of weeks to get a schedule together for him to start some formal learning again. He says he’s bored and enjoys the formal learning rhythm. Eli enjoys predictability; he loves feeding his mind. He enjoys schedules, […]
This post ended up getting really, really long, so I broke it up into various elements that I will share over the next few days . . .
JoVe from Tricotomania wrote a post called “Contemplations on the School Year.” I would like to share some experiences our family has chosen as well as my own […]
Yeah! My post is up at Life Without School entitled “Bookworms”. When I wrote it a few weeks ago, it just flowed off my fingertips. It’s my preface musings before I want to write a post that delves a little bit more into the reading world of my children. But, I wanted this posted […]
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