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As reported in the Huffington Post, to focus attention on National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, Disney star Demi Lovato has gone public. She was bullied so much in school that she and her parents chose to do home schooling rather than face the bullies at school. Her story follows Miley Cyrus telling of being bullied,

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Stop Bullies: Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Your Daughter

The Homeschool Blog Awards is rapidly approaching us with nominations set to begin October 19th. We are so excited to see this season get underway. It’s always a blessing to see all the wonderful blogs out there that encourage home education of all varieties. They have a category for teen blogs as described: 14, Best Teen Girl Blog, 15. Teen Guy Blog, 16.Teen Group Blog Let’s encourage those young bloggers to speak up and be a good example for their peers.

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As a homeschooling mom (and a mom that likes to work with the kids when they aren’t in school) we are always looking for fun things to do. Especially things that teach the kids useful skills (Wii doesn’t count), AND get them to be quiet for 10 minutes at a time. A friend turned us onto this program years ago. It’s a FREE program offered on the BBC’s site. Dance Mat Typing is a fun way to learn to type. The only catch is you want to make sure your child finishes a level before they get of

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FREE typing program for kids

One of the perks of homeschooling is the ability to stay in pajamas all day long . And my kids and I have taken advantage of that perk on more occasions than I can count. It’s just easier to stay in those comfy pj’s, right? But what I’ve finally come to grips with is that for our family, wearing pajamas while we homeschool just doesn’t work. Sure, it’s easy to be lazy and not bother changing. But I’ve noticed that when we do stay in our pj’s all day long, we don’t accomplish things as quic

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Should homeschoolers wear pajamas to school?

by Owen Jones Home schooling or homeschooling, if you want (in deed, you even see it hyphenated, as in home-schooling) has been about for about 30 years now, although, of course it was all parents had before state involvement in education. Remote thinly-populated places in large countries like the USA, Canada and Australia still have to rely on home schooling to a large degree, although it is less difficult now with the wide-spread use of radio, television and the Internet. Video packages also

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Home Schooling Information.

The internets are abuzz at the recent Salon article by Andrew O’Hehir and his attempts to explain why he and his wife have chosen to homeschool their children. I myself have gone back and forth, up, down, and sideways on whether to homeschool our 1st grader. In one sense, the thought of a curriculum tailored to my child and his specific interests greatly intrigues me. My little one is definitely an out-of-the-box thinker, and I would like to keep him that way. In this thought, I have a

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Playing Defense on Homeschooling

September 25, 2009 Obama 101: Garbage in, Garbage outWatch the videos below – smacks of Stalin-ism and Goebbels style inculcation, It is a stunning indictment of thow random and dangerous the public education system is and proof positive that parents must opt out of the system and demand vouchers for private schooling and vouchers for home schooling (vouchers for resources to home school adequately). The left refuses to recognize the need of objectivity among men – particularly men

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Obama 101: Garbage in, Garbage out…

I’m too darned busy this week, but am having a hard time figuring out what I can skip. Am sick of canning, but the tomatoes keep coming– 14 quarts canned today. Soon it will be cold enough that we’ll have to pick the green ones and wrap them in newspaper to ripen in the garage. Not this week, I hope! There’s homeschooling to do, as always. We made it through almost every subject today except science and history. Not bad. Except for the 7 year old and 4 year old, who spent most of their

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Day 23: Essentials (and book winner!)

Former religious right activist rips on the religious right. We are several generations into the progeny of leaders such as James Dobson and his radio show Focus On The Family. These offspring extol the virtues of corporal punishment, patriarchy, applying biblical law to public governance and so forth. Millions of evangelicals have been raised in homes where they’ve been isolated from the wider culture, home schooled and/or sent to “Christian schools” where they have been indoctrinated to b

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It’s always been accepted that folks have an inborn right to figure out the easy way to raise and educate their kids. Nowadays, the latter decision is made more complicated for the simpler dichotomous call of private vs. public schooling is given a 3rd rival : homeschooling. Homeschooling holds an obvious edge over the other 2, that of the incontrovertible fact that as a parent, you are given a chance to be absolutely hands-on with your child’s education, from schedule, to curriculum, and to t

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Abigails Helpful Realities For Parents Who Home School Their Children