Posts Tagged ‘Homeschooler’

Is anyone really surprised that a nation with compulsory government education would one day require compulsory government healthcare too? – Spunky HomeSchool

This is a question posed on a Facebook Friends status, which was passed around from one homeschooler to another.  And it’s so very true.  Are you really surprised that this is the way our nation is going?

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I realize I”ve been a way from this blog for a while now.  I kept meaning to update people and write about our adventures in High school and Jr. High. but really my business has grown to the point where that’s taking up most of my time now.  However, things have been going really well for both of the boys in school.

Jack has been doing his work with Time4Learning, and is almost done with all of the 7th grade work and will be going onto 8th grade work shortly.  He may even be able to go on ahead into High School in the fall.  If he does, then he’ll more than likely start using Odyssey Charter with Roger because I really like the way things are done at that school.

Roger has been doing PE two days a week and going to campus one day a week.  This has been giving him a lot of independance and he’s been making friends and doing really well.  He’s even got a girlfriend now and they will be going to the Las Vegas Homeschool Prom next month.

So basically everything is going really well, if a little hectic because of the business.  I feel a little guilty because I haven’t been doing a whole lot “school” with the boys, but they’ve been doing their schoolwork on their own.  Maybe I don’t “feel” much like a homeschooler right now because I’m really not doing much.   But they are both doing really well and are very independent in their learning… which is more like the way things would be in College anyway.  Or at least that’s the way I feel.

Being a homeschooler means that your children “go” to school whenever you want them to.  Often, we have days off when others don’t, and the reverse is often true as well.  There’s been plenty of Winter “Vacations” that we’re vacations at all for my boys.  That’s one of the nice things about homeschooling, we’re free to do what ever the heck we want, WHEN ever we want!

So today, as I was working in my office (by working I mean sitting at my desk doing pretty much nothing, because it’s a dead day for oversized transportation permits), I noticed that the kids that live behind us were still bouncing on their trampoline at 9am.  Then I noticed the boys next door were in our yard playing soccer.  What the heck was going on???

So I went to our lovely school district website to see what the heck was going on.  Right on their front page they have a little tiny news snippet saying ” Nov. 4th District Wide Staff Development Day”.  Of course there’s nothing saying what they heck that means or why it just happens to be on Election Day.  So I went surfing around the web to see if there were other school districts conveniently taking today off to vote.  Low and behold, they are!  I don’t think that they ALL are, but I think a huge majority of schools are taking today off.

The question is, are they taking today off to vote?  If they are taking today off just to vote, why are they doing this?  I mean, don’t the rest of us have to work during the day and squeeze in voting around our busy schedule?  And what about the burden this puts on parents who’s children aren’t in school?  How understanding are all those businesses going to be to allow their parent employees the day off to allow the local schools to send the teachers out to vote?

Voting is extremely important, but the polls are open pretty early and stay open pretty late.  My specific voting poll is open from 7am – 8pm.  So no matter when I decide to go vote, I’ll be able to.  I don’t see why teachers can’t do the same thing.

What do you think?  Do you think the teachers are taking today off to vote or for actual “Staff Development”?

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Blogging that hits the mark!

Sassy Mama Bear @ The Cafe at the End of the Universe

Sassy Mama Bear has given Best HomeSchool Place a blogging award. It happens to be our first award as well! So we are extremely happy and excited about this! It really means a lot coming from such a great, and multi-award winning blog!

Now, for passing the bloggy love onto the next 3 deserving websites.  Envelope please…………………..

And the Awards go to:

1. The Accidental Mommies – For being cute, funny, and informative for moms of all sorts.



2. First Tyme Mom – For giving us a great look at what becoming a mom, for the first time, is like, and letting us into her world.



3. Heathen Homeschooler – For not just giving us great resources and ideas for homeschooling, but for also giving other Heathen Homeschoolers a place to get together online and communicate!

Please visit each of these great blogs! I’m sure you will enjoy them as much as I have.

I’m a mom of two boys, one is 14 the other is 12.  They both have been going through puberty for a while now.  A long time ago, when my oldest was starting to ask questions, I got him a couple of books that helped both him and I with the whole “TALK”.  My oldest has always been a little more shy about talking about his feelings, and certainly more so about sex.  But the books that I bought helped quite a bit.  My youngest has never been shy about anything though.  His way of talking to me about things like sex has always been by confessional.  No we’re not Catholic, he’s just weird.  One of the things he confessed to me about was some of his sexuality.  That is what has prompted me to write an article for Secular Homeschooling Magazine about Sex Education and the Homeschooler.  If they don’t accept the article, then I’ll post it here.  However, just in case someone is interested in some of the books that I bought for my sons, you can see them below.  I’ll let you all know one way or another if my article is in Secular Homeschooling Magazine and when the issue comes out with it.

If your homeschooler is a sophomore or junior, they are probably beginning to think about colleges. They are probably wondering which one they will attend, whether they will live off or on campus, what their major will be, and how they will make the transition from homeschooled scholar to college student. Three of the ways that your college student can ensure a pleasant transition into college life are: getting a part time job six months or more before beginning college, join an organization that can act as a resource on college campuses (such as local ministries), engage in fully independent activities (like studying for exams or setting personal goals for achievement).
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