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“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
Beatrix Potter

“Take Your Children Out Of School” – Psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald

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Friday, June 24, 2022 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded Content“Take Your Children Out Of School” – Psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald

This is a must-watch video. Although they start out discussing schools, it is about much more including the trauma being experienced by both boys and girls in our society. Watch the video and then my comments follow. “Take Your Children Out Of School” – Psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald Regarding the education system, I have been …

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Books For Rethinking Children, Learning, and Education

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentBooks For Rethinking Children, Learning, and Education

Imagine putting a couple of dozen people in a room and charging with them with the task of devising the best kind of educational setting and experience for children. We would assemble the best parents, teachers, pediatricians, psychologists, and other people who truly love and understand kids. Then we would charge them with imagining how …

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Should I Homeschool This Fall? Questions and Answers To Help You Decide

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentShould I Homeschool This Fall? Questions and Answers To Help You Decide

With the advent of the current health situation and now other developing circumstances, many parents are facing a dilemma regarding school this fall. For the first time, you may be seriously considering pulling your child from traditional school and pursuing homeschooling. In this post, I’m going to help you begin to sort out the big …

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Everything You Need to Know About Harvard’s Attack on Homeschooling

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentEverything You Need to Know About Harvard’s Attack on Homeschooling

In case you missed it, a Harvard professor named Elizabeth Bartholet unleashed a firestorm last week with a call to institute a presumptive ban on all homeschooling. In other words, homeschooling would be forbidden unless the parents could prove that their child needed to be homeschooled in a way that the state deemed a true …

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The Importance Of Deschooling The Homeschool Mom

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Monday, May 8, 2017 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentThe Importance Of Deschooling The Homeschool Mom

Since all of us were educated in some way, we all carry certain expectations regarding what education should look like. I attended public school from kindergarten through college. I then took my teaching degree and taught in various private, Christian, Classical Christian, and Hillsdale model schools. One might think that my broad experience would be …

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Getting Started With Homeschooling

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Monday, February 29, 2016 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentGetting Started With Homeschooling

Homeschooling is a powerful choice for many families. Over the past ten years home education has become the learning method of choice for a wide range of families from all political, religious, and socioeconomic situations. I’ve grouped some of my homeschooling posts into topics that will be easy to see at a glance. The links …

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Teachers Who Become Homeschoolers Are The Indicator Species

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentTeachers Who Become Homeschoolers Are The Indicator Species

I was recently involved in a discussion with educators online related to the Pearson testing spying debacle (articles here, here, and here). I brought up that I thought testing had done more to accelerate the movement toward homeschooling than anything else I had witnessed in the past twenty years. Multiple teachers jumped in and said …

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5 Reasons Not To Quit After The First Year Of Homeschooling

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Thursday, June 19, 2014 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded Content5 Reasons Not To Quit After The First Year Of Homeschooling

It’s summertime and that means everyone is busy making plans for the next school year. Homeschooling moms are looking at curriculum options and deciding what to buy. Optimism and anticipation will slowly rise over the coming weeks as new books and school supplies start filling up homes again. But, truth be told, some moms are …

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Homeschooling, Homework, and Excessive Expectations On Children Today

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentHomeschooling, Homework, and Excessive Expectations On Children Today

Although high school is a long time ago, I don’t remember drowning in homework even though I excelled, took a college prep track, and worked hard. I remember having regular homework and I remember stressing out about certain tests and finals at times. But I had plenty of time to be very active in the …

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Introverts, Shyness, And Children In The Classroom

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Friday, February 8, 2013 | Sallie Borrink
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View Full Post with Embedded ContentIntroverts, Shyness, And Children In The Classroom

The Atlantic ran a piece that generated a flurry of passionate comments. Introverted Kids Need to Learn to Speak Up in School caused lots of strong reactions to the idea that introverts should be graded on classroom participation. As an introvert, I thought the author failed to really distinguish between being an introvert and being …

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