We’ve moved

Please join us at our new site: Project-Based-Homeschooling.com! We now have a working forum — yay!

You can now subscribe to get the blog via e-mail.

You can sign up for news & updates (we’re going to be offering some free e-books and another book is coming out soon).

You can see our book Project-Based Homeschooling: Mentoring Self-Directed Learners on Amazon or on Amazon UK. (Electronic versions rolling out as we speak…)

Whew. That’s a lot of new stuff.

Come celebrate with us!

launching a new site

See the book on Amazon

See the book on Amazon UK

Well, friends, as you know, I’ve been working on this for quite awhile but it’s finally (almost) ready to show you. The book will be available for sale this week on Amazon [note: it’s now available!], and we’re also launching a new site (and moving this blog over) to go with it, with a new forum as well.

Thanks for sticking with me, reading, and e-mailing your questions and your encouragement over the years. Your kind words kept me working and helped me finish this project.

Along with the book I’m also going to roll out some free e-books, and I’ve been working on a parent handbook & idea book that is a companion to the first book. If you want to be alerted when things are ready, please make sure to join our mailing list. And yes, we will have e-mail subscriptions at last! (And posts to read as well!)

Thank you again for your support — my sincerest wish is to pay it back with interest.

“I discovered that the library is the real school”

INTERVIEWER

You’re self-educated, aren’t you?

RAY BRADBURY

Yes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn’t want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my hands before I read them. But with the library, it’s like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there’s so much to look at and read. And it’s far more fun than going to school, simply because you make up your own list and you don’t have to listen to anyone. When I would see some of the books my kids were forced to bring home and read by some of their teachers, and were graded on — well, what if you don’t like those books? — Ray Bradbury’s Paris Review interview

take them for what they are

COLBERT: What’s the best thing a parent can do for a child?

SENDAK: Love him, or her.

COLBERT: What does that mean?

SENDAK: Take them for what they are.

— Maurice Sendak’s last video appearance

a good resolution

hat tip: Maria

resolutions get a bad rap

It's that time of year when people either announce their resolutions for the new year, keep quiet and mull them over alone, or loudly denounce having them at all.

Personally, I am pro-resolution. After all, how often do we see meaningful change where the first step wasn't a firm resolve to see that change occur?

In that spirit:

Resolution 1: It's not all or nothing.

Resolution 2: Break it down.

Resolution 3: Take real baby steps.

Resolution 4: Use the upward spiral.

Resolution 5: Quit.