These quirky gifted or 2e kids of ours are often “square pegs in round holes” everywhere they go, not just in school. Bringing them home helps them to thrive in their own way and often a self-directed, child-led homeschool approach helps them to discover who they truly are and what they want to learn. In…
Math is everywhere, and while textbooks are a basic tool for teaching math, we don’t have to chain ourselves to one resource. Grounding math in reality enables our kiddos to process the subject with a firmer understanding of the concepts they’re learning. After all, we learn math concepts so we can use it…
If any single subject causes kids and homeschool parents to suddenly start shaking in their boots (freshly muddied boots from a recent nature walk, of course), it’s math. Not just math. Math. Math is a polarizing subject, either eagerly entered with a love of formulas or survived by the befuddled whose paper sees as many tears as…
We speak a lot around here about lifelong learning, that self-motivated pursuit of knowledge not based on a required set of circumstances but learning for its own sake. When our kids are younger, they usually seem pretty content to follow our lead in how to do this. But as our guest today explains, once…
Asking a homeschooler about what curriculum they use is basically the equivalent to asking a stranger about this weather we’re having. You don’t really know what else to say, and you don’t want to leave awkward silence between the two of you, so you offer up the only word you know about homeschooling: curriculum. Usually,…
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