About

This blog is my attempt to catalog and record the events and lessons learned while I homeschool my son David. David is currently 5, so I’d call what’s going on right now “homeschool lite”, but since he’s starting to learn by leaps and bounds on his own, I thought I’d get in the habit of recording my thoughts on the process early.

I am a work at home mom (and David’s dad works here at home too), which was one of the reasons we have chosen the homeschooling path. We’re home all the time, and have never lacked the time to spend helping him learn and grow.

The primary reason we’ve decided to homeschool is that both David’s dad and I have strong libertarian tendencies. We would rather give our son a strong sense of individuality and a solid knowledge of his inalienable rights as a person rather than have a government school teach him about the benevolence of a government that tries to deny you the rights you were born with in exchange for “safety and security.”

That said, we’re not the type of folks who rally and actively fight against all things legislative. We don’t smoke pot. We don’t own guns. We’re not isolationists. We just try to live our lives with as much personal freedom and independence as we can.

Our educational philosophy can’t be captured within a single curriculum. I love the idea of unschooling, but I know that, if something radical happened to one of us in a health or financial area, we’d have to send David to a public or private school, so I need to ensure he’s at least at par with (and preferably a year ahead of) his school-going peers in at least reading and math. I love the idea of classical education, but I don’t think our lives can fit into the sort of rigorous schedule that kind of homeschooling demands, and finding a classical curriculum that’s not thoroughly religious is more work than I want to do.