Homeschool Blogs with Valuable Information and Statistics on Home Education
These fantastic home education blogs are written by Mimi Rothschild, veteran homeschooling mother and founder of the Learning By Grace academies. If you're looking for homeschool news, commentary, and helpful resources, you've come to the right place. These blogs are updated throughout the week with a variety of information for homeschooling parents and children. The Jubilee Academy is just for kids, providing weekly links for online learning adventures. The Grace and Morningstar blogs are geared more towards mom and dad, providing breaking home education news and homeschool tips from Mimi Rothschild. Feel free to click on each post headline so that you can get in on the discussion.
Mimi Rothschild, Home School Advocate - The Homeschooling News Café
Should your students learn handwriting? There are those who say that there is no longer any point to learning to write beautifully. Our children, like the others of their generation...
?Worksheets? can be almost synonymous with ?boring.? For some homeschool families, the opportunity to switch from endless worksheets to hands-on learning is one of the reasons they?ve chosen to homeschool. So I was a bit surprised when my sons disagreed with me as I sympathized with them about having to do worksheets.
-by Mimi Rothschild
Whether you?re brand new to home schooling, or you?re a veteran, you know how much work goes into each day. Between schoolwork, housework, and balancing the role of wife, mother and educator, it can be downright exhausting at times. So why not teach your children to be workers along with you? It will [...]
Mimi Rothschild - Home School Support & Home Education News
-by Mimi Rothschild
Most households have a digital camera nowadays, in our phones if nowhere else. We don?t have to worry about wasting film, having pictures developed, or any of the other complexities of traditional cameras. So let?s make best use of these handy tools for homeschool learning!
Take cameras with you on nature walks [...]
In today?s life, we spend much of our time in age-segregated situations. Public school is one of the worst examples: not only do kids spend most of the day with people of exactly their own age, but often they are restricted from interacting with kids even just a year or two older. Even in our churches...
-by Mimi Rothschild
One of the greatest benefits of homeschooling is the quality of curriculum, and the subsequent high level of intelligence and abilities that our children end up with as a result. More than likely your students will be highly qualified for admission to an excellent, maybe even elite, college. Of course, these schools are [...]
Mimi Rothschild - The Southern Baptist Academy Homeschooling Blog
-by Mimi Rothschild
Genesis 11: 1-9 tells the story of how the people got together to build a wonderful tower for themselves. God saw that they were gathering glory for themselves, not for Him, and made it impossible for them to talk together and communicate easily.
Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had [...]
-by Mimi Rothschild
Not every state requires that home schooled children be tested, so maybe you?re one of the lucky ones who don?t fall under a mandate. However, if you happen to live in a state that does require it, you know how intense, stressful and overwhelming it can be for your children.
The [...]
-by Mimi Rothschild
There are countless differences between traditional school and home school, many of which we as home educators feel blessed not to have to participate in. However, one difference which can actually prove to be quite beneficial to the home school family is the parent/teacher conference.
It might sound somewhat silly to [...]
Mimi Rothschild - Home School Resources & Home Education Websites
It?s hard to join in with your kids on learning adventures when you?re exhausted. And with babies, kids? activities, staying up late to get a little couple time after the kids go to bed, and getting up early to fit household chores in before schooling starts, lots of us are sleep deprived.
-by Mimi Rothschild
You have to have had your head in the sand for the past several years not to have heard of the ever-growing world of social networking websites such as Myspace, gloryLane, and Facebook. But what are these sites, really? And is there a way that you can use them and the internet in [...]
-by Mimi Rothschild
Nobody is immune to the occasional bad day, not even the home school Mom. There will inevitably be those days where frustration and stress sneak their way into your morning and threaten to affect your entire day. So what can you do when things just aren?t going right and going back [...]
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