I’ve never been so conscious of what my kids looked like as I am when I walk around the world with them during school hours. Most of the time I think people assume the kid is sick, or we are tourists in a town of no tourist activiites so we are forced toward the...
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Here is what I’m going to work on this year, as a homeschooling parent: via New Year’s Resolutions for Homeschoolers » Penelope Trunk Homeschooling.
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Do you ever hear parents who send their kids to school talking about curriculum? No. Right? Do you know why? Because it doesn’t matter. via Curriculum Discussion is Vapid » Penelope Trunk Homeschooling.
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I’m pretty sure the reason more people don’t homeschool is because it’s so, so hard. And my situation is no exception. I am the primary breadwinner, we live 90 minutes from a city, and I am much better suited for the relatively predictable world of business than taking care of children. I started this...
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Suddenly, so many traditional school subjects look totally insane to me. Here is a list. via Things I’m Not Teaching » Penelope Trunk Homeschooling.
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When you’re homeschooled and interested in something, you don’t go to your mom and say, “Mom, teach me more about this.” You try to figure out how you can gain more exposure to that thing. You might ask your parent/s for advice on where to start. And then you go out into the world...
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The idea that being a homeschooling parent means being an expert on every school subject and walking your kids, day by day, year by year, though everything they would otherwise have learned in a classroom is a huge misunderstanding of the way homeschooling works. via Kids Homeschool Themselves » Penelope Trunk Homeschooling.
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We do a lot of driving. The largest city within four hours of us is Madison, WI, so we drive there three days a week for swimming, soccer, violin , dance and social skills lessons for my kids. We drive to Chicago once a week for cello lessons. So one of my biggest worries...
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I’ve been homeschooling for about two months. I remember when my first son was born, and I thought, after five days, “This is crazy. How could I possibly do this for eighteen years?” via What I Know So Far » Penelope Trunk Homeschooling.
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I asked my youngest daughter today what she liked about homeschooling. She said one of the things she really liked it being able to go her own pace. At eleven-years-old there are times when she wants to do some of the stuff her older sisters, ages fifteen and seventeen, are doing. But other times...
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