by Donna Vail | Sep 29, 2015 | Education, Homeschool, Inspiration, Uncategorized
The law that you can use to your advantage is Parkinson’s Law, developed in 1955 by British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson which states: Work expands to fit the time at hand for doing it. At first this was an observation made by Parkinson as he observed...
by Donna Vail | Aug 19, 2015 | Education, Homeschool, Parenting
When it comes down to the big “yes or no” answer whether to public school or home school, most everyone’s stumbling block is math. Given the fact that most parents home schooling today received their math education from a public school, it’s no...
by Donna Vail | Jun 9, 2015 | Culture, Education, Family Life, Homeschool, Homeschool, Parenting
Ask any parent and they can tell you of a time when their child did not want to do their academic studies, even to the point of absolute avoidance. It is nothing to be worried about or cause to label a child for such behavior. This a normal part of a child’s...
by Donna Vail | Apr 28, 2015 | Homeschool, Schools
Self-education is the most organic form of learning. We were born wired for self-education and come into the world naturally self-educating. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives a formal education.” Albert Einstein Our society is structured around institutional...
by Donna Vail | Dec 29, 2014 | Beyond Marietta, Homeschool
Usually when I meet someone for the first time and they learn that I’m a homeschooling mother of six children they often say something like, “Oh, I could never do that with my two children, I don’t know how you do it all with six children.” This is before they find...
