Quoting Quiverfull: The Bible is All You Need to be Educated?

June 2, 2013 By 15 Comments
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by Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies -You Don’t Have To Be Rich I read this morning in Ecclesiastes 34:13, “Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king.”

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To Homeschooling’s “Old Guard:” 20 Truths You Need to Hear

May 31, 2013 By 8 Comments
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by Heather Doney cross posted from her blog Becoming Worldly   This is a post for homeschooling’s “old guard,” the people who first started homeschooling and unschooling back in the day. Writing this post has been hard to do. I do not want to make enemies of the old guard unschoolers and homeschoolers. I just [...]

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A Call For Contributions to HA’s Upcoming Self-Injury Awareness Series

May 30, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Cross posted from Homeschoolers Anonymous A Call for Contributions to HA’s Upcoming Self-Injury Awareness Series  By R.L. Stollar, HA Community Coordinator I vividly remember the day when cutting struck close to home.

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Cloistered Fruit (Not) An Open Letter to the Pearls

May 30, 2013 By 10 Comments
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by Samantha cross posted from her blog Defeating The Dragons So, a friend of mine sent me this post by Michael and Debi Pearl the other day. I encourage you to go read it, just so that you have some context for the following rant and can follow along.

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Quoting Quiverfull: Public Schools Do What?

May 29, 2013 By 11 Comments
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by Mary Pride of Homeschool World – Sibling Revelry However, in one respect these books do get it right. In school, kids learn to segregate themselves by age. Older kids learn to be embarrassed about spending time with younger kids. Schoolkids also quickly learn the art of the putdown,

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