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Articles to Support You as a Parent
This is a partial list of articles to help you in your parenting role. I plan to add to this list any articles that fellow homeschoolers recommend or that I discover in my reading. (The most recent additions are at the top of this list.) If you particularly like an article, please e-mail a link to Linda.
Posted April, 2008
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Do Grades or Standardized Test Scores Make the Student?
My son has been accepted at Clemson, Iowa State and Kansas State universities, where he can study chemical engineering. The bad news is that Clemson costs $30,000 each year. After paying considerable Virginia taxes for the past 36 years, I feel cheated that top Virginia state schools won't let him in because of his high school record. If he had been home-schooled, they'd have had to look at his same test grades and SAT subject test scores and let him in.
Read the rest of the Washington Post article here.
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Parents: Are You Ready To Serve God Via Homeschooling?
By Dr. Richard A. Jones
A mom who can read, loves her kids, loves Jesus and is reasonably self-disciplined can do it much better than teachers in group-think-oriented, crowded classrooms.
Read the rest of the blog article here.
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Homegrown Success
Home-schoolers are more likely to attend college and be more politically active than their peers, a study says. The survey of more than 7,300 adults who were home-schooled found that among those ages 18 to 24, 74 percent had taken college courses, compared with 46 percent in the same age group among the general population.
Read the rest of the article here.
My son has been accepted at Clemson, Iowa State and Kansas State universities, where he can study chemical engineering. The bad news is that Clemson costs $30,000 each year. After paying considerable Virginia taxes for the past 36 years, I feel cheated that top Virginia state schools won't let him in because of his high school record. If he had been home-schooled, they'd have had to look at his same test grades and SAT subject test scores and let him in.
Read the rest of the Washington Post article here.
By Dr. Richard A. Jones
A mom who can read, loves her kids, loves Jesus and is reasonably self-disciplined can do it much better than teachers in group-think-oriented, crowded classrooms.
Read the rest of the blog article here.
Home-schoolers are more likely to attend college and be more politically active than their peers, a study says. The survey of more than 7,300 adults who were home-schooled found that among those ages 18 to 24, 74 percent had taken college courses, compared with 46 percent in the same age group among the general population.
Read the rest of the article here.
Posted in the second half of 2007
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Home Where They Belong
This lengthy blog entry by several of the folks at The Old Schoolhouse Magazine covers several areas of homeschool support. Read these articles here. -
Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream, 2nd edition, by Patrick Basham, John Merrifield, and Claudia R. Hepburn
The paper considers the educational phenomenon of home schooling in Canada and the United States, its regulation, history, growth, and the characteristics of practitioners before reviewing the findings on the academic and social effects of home schooling. Read it here. -
A Good Parent Is a Decisive Parent, by John Rosemond
Discipline is the process by which parents transform a child into a disciple, a little person who will look up to them, follow their lead, and subscribe to their values. This is accomplished through proper leadership, not through the manipulation of consequences. The principles that define proper leadership do not change from one leadership context to another. Therefore, if one understands leadership in, say, a business environment, then one understands how to lead children.
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The Hardest Part of Home Schooling, by Zan Tyler
As a friend reminded me recently, homeschooling is a calling. It is rewarding. The benefits for the family and the children are multi-dimensional. Homeschooling is also hard.
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Homeschooling Comes of Age, By Isabel Lyman
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the modern home education movement was in its infancy. At that time, most Americans viewed home-styled education as a quaint tourist attraction or the lifestyle choice of those willing to endure more hardship than necessary.
Read the rest of the article here. - Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter, by Alanna Mitchell
What is it with so many children today? Sullen and surly, they ignore their elders and live to be with their peers. Two Vancouver specialists have a theory, but grownups won't like it, Alanna Mitchell reports. They believe the parental bond is being broken, with harrowing results.
Read the rest of the article here. - Nurturing Children’s Natural Love of Learning, by Jan Hunt, M.Sc.
The main element in successful homeschooling is trust. We trust the children to know when they are ready to learn and what they are interested in learning. We trust them to know how to go about learning.
Read the rest of the article here.
