Feed

North Carolinians for Home Education favors Senate Bill 857, “Private School Families Tax Incentive.” We encourage homeschoolers to express their support for this bill to the senators who are members of the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate. (See contact information below.) This bill is designed to help families who have experienced an income loss due to Covid-19 keep their children enrolled in their private schools or homeschools. Families may qualify to claim a one-time tax credit that will apply for 2020 NC income tax returns when they meet these conditions: 1) They received a federal economic impact...

Photo: Austin Pacheco on Unsplash Homeschooling, zooming, building, crafting, and complaining? Yes, unfortunately, all the homeschooling has turned kids into little monsters. Gasp! What?! But never fear! Your children will be alright. Since March, there were a lot of adjustments since school campuses closed. In the beginning, my friends and I laughed, joked, and then intermittently cried over all the math lessons, the essays, and the assignments that had to be turned in on time. I’ve always had a deep respect for educators, but having to teach children not of their own blood for seven hours straight, five days a week...

We finished exams this week. Yay! It ended up being a pretty intense term. Mostly because we didn't have any of other filler things we normally do. Filler isn't quite the right word because I think our mini-coop, our playdates, nature hikes and field trip days all have an important role but they also lighten up our schedule when mixed with our regular school days. I also added a few books that suddenly became available on archive.org but for a limited time. I don't care if Ziner's Squanto is a year 3 book and I have kids in Year 2...

Every new parent has heard about the dangers of screen time and allowing children unmonitored access to the internet. These are both valid areas of concern that should be addressed in an ongoing discussion between parents and their children. But there’s also the reality of growing up in the 21st century. Parents often work outside the home, leaving less time for daily housekeeping chores and in turn, less time to spend focused on their little ones. Kids are also exposed to TV, movies, video games and apps from an early age and may get left behind in the classroom and...

This may surprise some people, but I’ve been called a lot of things over the years and a lot of them weren’t even nice.  It’s even true to say that I was called things just today that would make some of you clutch your pearls and shake your head. One of the less vulgar of these, the one that inspired this writing, was “goody two-shoes”, something that I can say with some certainty is not a way that I’ve ever been described before. The origin of the phrase is a bit murky. There’s a poem by Charles Cotton in 1670 that...