A great homeschooling resource

I can across this great homeschooling site Besthomeschooling through Home of Mothering Magazine (a great website on natural family living with an awesome discussion board)


I read through a couple articles and totally felt this was something I should share. Its a great resource for any family whos beginning the journey of home education.

A couple quotes from one article that stood out to me:

"What I've seen over the years is that homeschooling is most successful as a way of life when we can manage to let go of the limiting notion of a separate activity called "homeschooling." Although there are many important things to learn (and to study) about the world and about our lives, learning can and does thrive quite abundantly and naturally without a structured schooling format. Children want and need their parents to be parents, not home school teachers. The greatest joys and successes seems to come in just being, learning, and growing together in mutual respect, and that can take many forms that have no categorized name."
From: Considering Methods & Styles of Homeschooling by Lillian Jones

And this is a great gem of insight:

"When we adults think of children, there is a simple truth which we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life, childhood is life. A child isn't getting ready to live - a child is living. The child is constantly confronted with the nagging question, "What are you going to be?" Courageous would be the youngster who, looking the adult squarely in the face, would say, "I'm not going to be anything; I already am." We adults would be shocked by such an insolent remark for we have forgotten, if indeed we ever knew, that a child is an active participating and contributing member of society from the time he is born. Childhood isn't a time when he is molded into a human who will then live life; he is a human who is living life. No child will miss the zest and joy of living unless these are denied him by adults who have convinced themselves that childhood is a period of preparation.
An excerpt from 'Notes On An Unhurried Journey' by John A. Taylor, from the same article.

What insightful words. We forget so easily that because a young child does not have the vocabulary or everyday skills that an adult has, that some how they are less, and not a human being in thier own right, but something that needs to be moulded and taught.