by Diana Waring | Feb 1, 2023 | Educating at Home, Educational Wisdom
A mom recently asked me about the idea of following our kids interests. After reading Why Quit Homeschooling, she wrote, “I ended with the same question that I often do when I read about moms who’ve ‘ditched’ the textbook method and are allowing...
by Diana Waring | Feb 1, 2023 | Educating at Home, Educational Wisdom
Many years ago, while living in the Black Hills of South Dakota, Bill and I decided one afternoon that it was time to take time. Bidding our teens a fond adieu, we headed off to parts unknown for the evening. Remembering the injunction, “Go West, Young Man, Go...
by Diana Waring | Feb 1, 2023 | Educating at Home, Educational Wisdom
Gazing at the IMMENSE hole of a buffalo jump in Beulah, Wyoming (as described in the previous post), I suddenly saw a relationship between making it easy to process buffalo for winter and making it easy for kids to learn. To explain, let me start with a few questions:...
by Diana Waring | Feb 1, 2023 | Educating at Home, Educational Wisdom
In our quest to educate our children, sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees. You know what I mean. There you are, trying to manueuver three children (or 1 or 6 or 12) through math (or lit or science or history), and it doesn’t look anything like...
by Diana Waring | Feb 1, 2023 | Educating at Home, Educational Wisdom
In the last post, we looked at the first Demystifier—children are always learning. Today, we’ll take that a step further. Demystifier #2: It’s not really learning until it changes you. Learning changes you. Getting it right on the test doesn’t mean...
by Diana Waring | Feb 1, 2023 | Educating at Home, Educational Wisdom
When it comes to homeschooling, are we teaching our kids or are we helping them learn?I’d never really thought about the difference until I took my high school daughter to her first violin lesson with a new teacher, but the lesson I learned from Mr. Peacock...