So, you’ve decided to travel with your kids and thought you’d have them learn from the great big world around them and homeschool as you go. Great! Your kids are in for a rich, learning adventure. Know up front that you can totally do this! [Read more…]
Online Resources for Kids
In our homeschooling adventures, we don’t really use a set curriculum or any workbooks. Instead, we rely mostly on the many wonderful educational programs available through the Internet, for either free or for a very low cost. [Read more…]
Our First Month of Homeschooling: Lessons Learned
I discovered that homeschooling, like most endeavors, is best learned by doing. You can prepare—just as you might for childbirth—but in the end, shit happens and you have to be willing to go with the flow. The trick is to trust that in the end, your kids will come out all right; they will learn, one way or another.
Unfortunately, I am far too controlling to trust that, but I’m learning.
Before we left the U.S. for our grand two-year trip around the world, I did as much research into homeschooling our kids, ages nine and three, as I could. At minimum, I had to learn enough to know what to do, or more specifically, what I would do. I needed to have some structure or goals in place.
My husband Pierre, on the other hand, planned to “wing it.” No books, no research, no pre-conceived plans. Just learning from the world around us as we lived our daily lives. Yeah, right, I thought. Back to my research. [Read more…]