Forum: Secular Homeschooling

I wrote a blog post about naming our homeschool, Bon Secour Academy. I love some of the names I have heard, and want to hear more!

how's it going so far? We're taking this week off due to a death in the family. The kids are in the other room playing chess & I'm sitting here...

Has anyone else here taken flak for homeschooling instead of working to change the system from within? The comments I have read/heard are usually...

Does anyone use sentence strips? What do you do with them? We have a bunch and I have a strip board that we're using, with poetry and other 'lines'...

So we did our lessons and I turned my kids loose on the neighborhood. So I thought. About 10 minutes in to my house work they boys came running...

Hi all :) I just read the "when are you starting" thread and was pleasantly surprised to see how many of you hs year round :) We haven't done...

Here's the situation: My son is 12 years old. He has been to public school all his life, but this year we are homeschooling through mutual...

This was in an email on a homeschooling loop recently and I am actually considering going. Why? It's good to know your enemy. (cue Green Day song...

My DD came home yesterday and announced she was done with her book (she had just started another Diary of a Wimpy Kid book the night before). WHAT? ...

We're planning to home-school until we move to a place with a better school system. I have "experience" with home-schooling because I was...

Hi everyone, I am a member of another homeschooling forum and read a post on there that makes me sad at the very limited view that some people...

At dd's request we have basically started doing school at home. This does not please me, but she was happy and thriving at school and when I told her...

I was interested in finding out what grade level the books are that my dd is reading and a friend sent me this site: ...

Interesting article here: http://www.edutopia.org/no-books-no-problem Not sure what to think--I lean toward Charlotte Mason/classical ed. and...

I know some are already going.. but for those that kind of follow public schools what day do you start? In Texas here we do not have set standards...

I am looking for non religion based motivational books for me. I am interested in things like organization, increasing laughter in my home, gentle...

Apparently, she came out to Wilma's two oldest daughters two months ago, so this was not the first time she told someone. (and I am working on my...