Those of you who get the Homeschool Legal Defense Association e-mails and those who read Amy’s Humble Musings will probably have already seen this, but for any of you who missed it, here’s a great op-ed piece J. Michael Smith of HSLDA wrote for the Washington Times on Homeschoolers and Socialization, covering two different studies [...]

I’ve been drowning in busy-ness lately, and my writing time has had to take a backseat, so here’s a post from the archives that I wrote back when I first started this blog.

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Socialization. It’s one of the most common arguments against homeschooling. In fact, when I tell people that I’m a homeschool graduate, [...]

We’ve arrived at a new milestone. Our oldest has reached compulsory school age. So, even though I’ve been doing “school time” since she was a baby and using textbooks for over two years, this is the first year we are “officially” homeschooling (in the government’s eyes). We’re ramping up our record keeping, and trying to [...]