Last Saturday morning (day four if you are counting) my son, Duncan, wanted to indulge his burgeoning love of photography, and woke me up at 6AM to go down to the beach to photograph the sunrise! (The things we parents do in the name of education =D) It was a beautiful, calm morning after some [...]
Have you noticed that homeschool families, particularly us moms, have a tendency to believe that everyone else who homeschools has a lovely, clean, peaceful home, creates nutritious, delicious meals from scratch and never yells at their children. You all know what I am talking about… Everyone else has their stuff in a pile but you, [...]
My middle daughter called this week. She is a homeschool graduate, away at her first year of college and in the midst of an interview process for a n RA position at the college. In her interview she was asked: “What singular event in your life has made you the person you are today?” I [...]
Yesterday I told you about two of the “fun boxes” that we use in our family to keep the troops at Clan Roe marching forward. Today I want to tell you about the other two. Fun Box #3 – The Idea Box – This could be called the Reward Box Part II, because the idea [...]
September 2010 Inspire! As a child who did not learn to read easily, I sympathize with children who find reading a struggle. While some children pick up reading without difficulty, many children have to really work at it. Often these children complain that the story is too long or too hard. Since one of the [...]
December 2009 Inspire! It is 3:30 pm and Janice Robertson has just asked her twelve-year-old daughter, Emma, to write a two-page essay on the formation of volcanoes. As Janice prepares dinner, she notices Emma staring blankly at the paper. Ten more minutes pass and Emma is still not writing. Well aware of her daughter’s disdain [...]
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