by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 2, 2013 | Homeschool Startup
No matter how damaging or harmful — or boring — public school is for their children, many people feel they cannot transition to homeschooling. It's unknown. It's unfamiliar. It's scary. (Not to mention weird.) They think they need to plan and prepare and research and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 31, 2013 | Homeschool Startup, Public School
The Big Getting-Ready-to-Homeschool Question Well over a decade ago, when we lived in Florida, a friend (whose kids were in public school) called in desperation. Two of them were tanking in school and, given the environment, feeling worse and worse with each passing...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 28, 2013 | Field Trips
People Don't Value Free Events In 1997, when we lived in Florida, my best buddy and I decided to team together to start a homeschool choir for elementary aged kids. Becky would play the piano, I would conduct. We'd hold it at my house. Since we had, at the time, six...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 9, 2013 | Curriculum
[This article was originally published in about 1994 in Home Education Magazine.] Math Background When I was nearly four years old, my father received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and since that time he has been a professor...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 23, 2013 | Public School
#1 Teaching Kids is Easy Keeping young kids quiet, sitting at a desk, for seven hours a day, 180 days per year is hard. Teaching them reading, writing, and arithmetic is easy. People who tell you otherwise about the general population are lying to protect their jobs....
