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Q & A: Late Reader
HEM’s Questions & Answers Late Reader We’re relaxed homeschoolers but I can’t relax about my son’s inability to read. He’s going to be 10 this winter. Yes, I’ve read to him since he was young. Yes,...
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Save your kids! Student Loan Consolidation Fix
Student loan consolidation is a major problem in our society today. Several years ago one of our writers wrote a good article about teaching your kids how to manage their money and make a budget....
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Printed Back Issues are no longer available.
Is it still possible to get past Home Education Magazine issues in print format? All printed back issues are gone and we are moving forward with new formats for delivering the great information...
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Amateur Power: Citizen Science is Made for Beginners
Nancy Walters shares her family’s experience with Cornell University’s Citizen Science programs in her piece Amateur Power: Citizen Science is Made for Beginners When you tag a monarch butterfly, you...
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Socializing Remy
David Albert address the “S” word in his I My Word column, Socializing Remy This year (as some of you, dear readers, are already well aware), we got a new puppy, a delightful Welsh terrier named Remy....
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Lessons from the Sugar Bush
In the May-June 2012 issue of Home Education Magazine Caroline Kiberd shares time honored Lessons from the Sugarbush “Does it hurt the tree?” my daughter asked with a worried tone as her brother...
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Indefinable
Emily McIntyre explores the new way of working in today’s world. Indefinable ‘employment scenarios’ ‘what do you do’ is changing. ( added by editor) When I was a kid, well-meaning teachers, relatives,...
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Rethink Everything Conference 2012
Greetings! There is so much to tell you about, but here is just a brief summary of what’s going on this year. There is SO MUCH MORE so please visit the conference website to see it all. You have come...
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It’s a Whole New Magazine
We are so excited to announce a brand new shift in Home Education Magazine. Beginning with our September-October issue we are taking on a facelift like we’ve never seen before. New writers, young...
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Keeping the Parent-Teen Connection Strong Through Unschooling by Laurie A. Couture The natural state of adolescence is to be joyful, playful, social and connected to parents and community. Read to Me...
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Going It Alone, by Leslie Potter
I never dreamed I would be a single parent. I grew up in the deep South and naively believed the Disney fantasy of growing up, finding Prince Charming, getting married, having a house full of kids and...
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The Big Unlearn, by Peter Kowalke
We’re all taught to fail. I’ve slowly come to see that we’re all brainwashed, even us unschoolers. We all fail by living in our heads, living in a conceptual framework we build to explain our...
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Small Bodies, Great Wisdom: The Extraordinary Value of Listening to My...
“Mommy, when you were just a little girl and I was still up in heaven, I used to peek down and watch you. And I decided that since you already had a mommy to help you, I would come down and be...
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Living and Loving the Consensual Flow of Life, by Tracy Liebmann
When I began my homeschooling journey in 2003 I had no idea how many doors would open, how many belief systems would be challenged and how my life would be changed forever! Yes, the initial reasons...
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Playing Our Way to Learning a New Language, by Jenny Lantz
Learning English. A new language for my kids whose native tongue is Swedish. As English is a language that is spoken in so many countries we feel that it is important that our kids grow up fluent in...
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Radically Different Learning Styles: My Adventure into Learning, by Rebecca...
I’ve lately been interested in considering the role our physical environment has in shaping the ways our children learn and grow. In my family’s case, my husband and I decided to leave our home in...
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Unschooling School: Sometimes a Step Back is Actually a Step Forward, by Suki...
Kindergarten didn’t agree with my daughter. Although we’d tried to choose the least school-like environment we could––a tiny Montessori school in the redwoods––being trapped in a classroom and having...
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The Unsupervised Warrior, by John Taylor Gatto
The civilized world got along fine without institutional schooling for 2000 years, progressing from grass shacks, caves, and donkey carts to Duesenbergs, space rockets and mansions, so why did mankind...
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We Love You, Anthony How Our Adopted Kinesthetic Son Shook Up My Cerebral,...
The following story from Penny Tuggle is from our May-June 2013 issue of Home Education Magazine: When our little boy was five, he came into the kitchen and asked, “Mama, what are we having for...
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I Am Open to Conflict, by Nadine LeBean
Whenever I need to learn something really well, I teach it. That is what has brought me to you today. I need to remember and fully believe what has worked and what has not worked with helping my...
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