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Fun! Nance’s “Homeschooling is Freedom” interview just went up. . . Poor Nance had a hard time with my questions.I think the format boxed her in too much. Maybe it seemed too much like a test. For whatever reason, she just wasn’t comfortable with the box I gave her so she did what any resourceful, independent homeschooling mom would do and simply punched her way out of it.When Nance wrote back, she apologized for tearing up the box and said she would understand if I didn’t use her response. But

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Don’t Box Her In: Nance Confer’s Interview

And when he was the child instead of the father, was what he got as parenting, “right”?Joe Jackson told the BBC that he whipped Michael with a switch and a belt . . .When asked about Michael’s comments that he was so nervous seeing his father that he regurgitates, Joe Jackson’s comment is, “He regurgitates all the way to the bank.”Just a reminder to temper our parental self-righteousness in the public policy square, as this summer’s hysteria heats up over the UN daring to champion the Rights of

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Remember That Michael Jackson “Homeschooled” His Kids

If you are homeschooling — read out of the education mainstream — and don’t know about the Kobayashi Maru, you should. Think Harry Potter changing the rules to survive.Even the artsy Oscars go by grades and scores and competitive rules, you know . . .Obviously this is power of story for schooling, politics, the economy, families and/or classrooms with five to ten children, marriage, beauty pageants, baseball, you name it:BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The best-picture lineup at the Academy Awards is do

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How Changing the Rules Changes the Game

Novelist Jodi Picoult profiled in today’s NYT Magazine:It was not always the case that the imperiled child was at the center of American popular culture. . . .[but] the endagered or ruined child has emerged as a media entity within a culture that has idealized the responsibilities of parenthood to a degree, as has been exhaustively noted, unprecedented in human history. The more we seek to protect our children, the more we fear the consequences of an inability to do so..

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Power of Story Behind Homeschool Regulation Psychology?

First time I’ve heard anyone put it quite like this!I will never understand why parents who would never allow their children to set foot in a public school would encourage — or at least not discourage — their children to join the U.S. military and not only face government propaganda and immorality on a much greater scale than exists in the public schools, but participate in bringing death and destruction to the latest “enemy” of the U.S. empire.

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HSLDA-Affiliated Homeschoolers in Military: QOTD

Have you seen the TED video of mathematician Steven Strogatz describing how complex, perfect patterns can be created by individuals moving in unchoreographed, spontaneous synchronicity?As I watched the video, I was reminded of network theory discussions we’ve had at NHEN and across our blogs, about human hubs and nodes communicating without hierarchy or leader or rules as freely synching-up individuals in education advocacy, for homeschool support and other parent involvement projects. Imagine i

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Most Powerful Drive in the Universe: Sync!

So what’s this? When I see Ohio and homeschooling in the same context, it spells trouble. (Is it a sign of cognitive clarity or confusion, do you think, that I’ve come to believe some states are just more troublesome than others? And they’re not all southern or California-crazy — Ohio and Minnesota are on top of my naughty list time after time, after wearying time.

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New Homeschool Law Guide — Can We Send It Back Unopened?