January 2nd, 2012 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
One of the many reasons we decided to homeschool was to cover a lot of the basics we feel education is lacking these days. A benefit of bringing her home is that we’ve had an amazing opportunity to reinforce our values as a family and to encourage her to find friends who share those values. [...]
October 13th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
Occasionally my Type O personality gets me in trouble but when it comes to Drue’s schooling, I think we’ve found enough justification for my OCD. I’ve been on the edge of education for over a decade now and have seen second and third hand what teachers experience but it is nothing like being responsible for [...]
September 12th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
I have unschool homeschool envy. There. I admitted it. I am so jealous of families who take off for a week to go camping with 20 other homeschool families and call that “schoolwork”. I feel a physical yearning to throw my lesson plans out my window and turn today’s math lesson into 2 hours of [...]
August 17th, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
In the last five months, we have run the gamut as far as schooling goes. We started out the year in our local public school, left our public school in March and allowed Drue to “deschool” for six weeks where she lolled about in her pajamas, read a lot of books, spent a few hours [...]
August 1st, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
After giving Drue a good month off to decompress or, as many homeschoolers call it, to “deschool” I realized I had three challenges ahead of me. The first challenge was that I had no idea what Drue actually learned after 7 years of public education. Second, I had no idea how she learns. And finally, [...]
April 1st, 2011 | by Jeri | published in Educating the Chaotic Mind
For every well thought out reason a parent chooses to homeschool their child, I’d like to believe that for another, it’s a catalyst. At least, that’s how my adventures in homeschooling began. The irony of it all is that a few weeks before, an old pal – you know the kind, the person you talked [...]
