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September 7th, 2010 Tomorrow morning we start our homeschool year. I often choose the Nativity of Mary as a starting date because leaning on Our Lady a bit helps me fight off that choking feeling of panic that rises in my throat every year at the beginning of September. So, here we go. I have written before about my ambivalence about homeschooling (Darn that new Inside Catholic site — it’s very cool and July 6th, 2010 I’ll be in Denver this weekend, speaking at the Rocky Mountain Home Educators Conference. I will also be signing and selling copies of Small Steps for Catholic Moms and its companion journal and meeting many of the very cool people I have gotten to know online through the years … and that means YOU. Will you be there? I would love the opportunity to meet you! April 13th, 2010 I am really looking forward to meeting up with a fabulous bunch of Texan homeschoolers in Houston at the ARCH Conference this coming weekend. I will be speaking there on Saturday, April 17: What Happy Homeschoolers Know: 8 Ways to Thrive in Home Education Hope I’ll see you there! February 15th, 2010 UPDATE: I have been reprimanded for not sharing the artist’s name. And here I thought Ambrose wouldn’t want the world to know what he’s doing instead of his school work. November 12th, 2009 Inside Catholic is re-running a column of mine today … about my complicated relationship with homeschooling: I Love Homeschooling … I Hate Homeschooling October 5th, 2009 I just set up a second computer for kids’ schoolwork in an upstairs bedroom. More and more of the kids’ schoolwork is requiring the use of a computer — we definitely needed this. But an internet-connected computer in a private room makes this mom of growing kids worry. So I decided to set up this computer with a wireless USB adapter. Now this school computer can only access the internet September 14th, 2009 The sweet young mom who laminated my school schedules for me at Staples handed them to me with a shy smile. “This looks intimidating to me,” she admitted. “I am a homeschooler too, but I find it so hard.” “Really?” I asked, “How old are your kids?” “Three and one.” Three and one. What I wanted to say was, “Oh don’t do that! Don’t even try to do that! |
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