I have been packed into vans, hotel rooms, and museums this past week surrounded by bunches of homeschoolers at Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. There were a range of reactions to groups of children, from a mean docent lady who made me cry to the sweet elderly lady who approached the boys (dressed up in period clothes) to ask how they were enjoying the week, why they decided to dress that way, and what they had been learning. There were all kinds of homeschoolers too. Of course there were the winsome, the well behaved, the rowdy and rambunctious, and the rotund preteen bellyacher with the helpless, indulgent mother (he was my least favorite-not in our group btw!) At the end of the week I received some feedback about our group in particular.
All this has my me thinking homeschooling, kid raising stuff (too much tv? too little discipline? too much discipline? not enough hot chocolate and fun time?) and lo and behold I come across a homeschool article by way of a link from Nancy Wilson. I really appreciated it. It is here. Go, check it out for yourself, it was a good "check" for myself!
