It often feels like life happens, and homeschooling happens, and we are just along for the ride. If there’s one thing I have learned from 13 years of homeschooling it’s that it can’t really just happen. As the old saying goes, if we fail to plan, we plan to fail. We need to be intentional about it. […]
Homeschool High School Guidance Counseling
So you’re going to homeschool your child for high school. Me too. Now what?
So you’re going to homeschool your child for high school. Me too. Now what? Today my 16 year old and I had a talk that I liken to what I vaguely remember my high school guidance counselor discussing with me.
Homeschooled Teens Need to Have Choices: Let Her Lead
Who directs your homeschooling? Who chooses your curriculum? Chances are you said, “Me, of course”. Well, what about when your children grow to be teens? As I’m charting this course for my soon to be 11th grader, one thing that I am feeling is very important is that she owns her education.
Who Says Homeschoolers Can’t Go to Prom?
P was invited to the Senior Prom by a friend from church. He doesn’t go to the high school she had gone to, but she has quite a few friends who go there. A big group of them went all together and they had a fabulous time. They went out for dinner at a nice […]
High School Options
Our 15 year old J will be home at the end of June. We are SO excited! She has been gone for so long… and it’s a long story that I am not sure how much I will share (or that she would want me to share), but suffice it to say she has been […]