Articles from April 2010



Homeschool Highschool – Overcoming the Challenges of Homeschooling the Teen Years

Are you struggling to homeschool in high school? Just like with parenting, every new stage of homeschooling brings new challenges. Even perfect strangers may express concerns over your ability to meet the needs of your child, but the needs of the parent are often ignored. Let’s address some of the concerns parents of high schoolers [...]

How to Prepare Your Homeschooled Child For College Tests

One big concern about parents who choose to homeschool their children is making sure that they did a good enough job with their child’s education. No parent wants to go through the effort to find out they didn’t give their child the tools needed to go on to college. One very important part of college [...]

Frisbees, Microwaves, and Velcro

Frisbees, Microwave Ovens, and Velcro have something in common… In the 1940’s Yale students sailed pie tins through the air and played catch. Ten years later, Walter Frederick Morrison, a flying-saucer enthusiast, improved on the idea. Morrison and the company Wham-O produced and sold a saucer-like disk which they called a Frisbee. It was named [...]