Several days ago, I participated in an online homeschooling event. This event was hosted by a website and included speakers on a variety of homeschooling topics via streaming audio. There was a chatroom for listeners to be able to chat to each other and type questions for the host and speaker. I am not going…
Category Archives: General Education Topics
Heathen Ramblings
Oh my how time has flown the last few days. Note to self – don’t plan on taking that many days away from my online life again, lol. I’m still weeding through emails. So today’s post is a look inside the ramblings of me, Heathen Mom. Maybe someone else can make sense out of the…
The Joys of Testing
If you are a twitter follower you know that I spent my morning supervising standardized testing for our homeschool group. This is a service that is offered by the parent support group of our larger organization. It is made available to all homeschooling families in our area. Several families who are too far away to…
Has Heathen Mom lost her mind?
I was going to blog about Heathen Son’s homeschool orchestra for Music Monday, but as I sat down to write I changed my mind. A more pressing topic came to mind….the mental status of Heathen Mom. That’s right, I think she’s gone nuts. (See there I go referring to myself in the third-person – call…
Homeschool Moms Gone Wild
There is a homeschool conference later this week. Providing Heathen Dad cooperates with the plans for the kiddos, I will be attending. Usually I just drive to the conference each day, which takes about 45-50 minutes. This year I am not driving back and forth each day. Woohoo! I am going to be staying in…
Thoughtful Thursday
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. –Galileo
When People Learn We Homeschool
Here are 10 of the comments that I have heard after people learn we homeschool our children. I hope some of them make you giggle as much as they did me. I just needed a bit of humor tonight, lol! 1. “I’m sorry, if I would have known I wouldn’t have asked.” ~~ Guess this…
Homeschool Humor
It seems like all homeschool moms are constantly looking for more information about homeschooling. Homeschooling magazines are a good source to find current information. There are many out there to choose from. The choices are more limited if you are looking for secular resources. Secular Homeschooling is a wonderful new magazine that is published by…
August = Thinking about School
Summer is almost over. I cannot believe it is already August. Many people are beginning to think about school. Today my phone has been ringing constantly. People are calling to get more details about a local homeschool group that we attend. I volunteered this year to be the class coordinator for one of the programs….
Learn Nothing Day
July 24 was the first annual Learn Nothing Day. Do you have any idea how hard it is to try not to learn anything for an entire day? When I found out about Learn Nothing Day I posted it to the list of events on our online community and planned to make the day full…