As A Homeschooler…

Photo credit: Darcy Anne, used with permission.  Editor’s Note: Darcy Anne is a homeschool alumni blog partner. She blogs at Darcy’s Heart-stirrings. This post was originally published on July 28th, 2016, and is reprinted with permission. I’ve been watching my kids learn about their world and their place in it. Answering their questions about current events like the marriage equality

Get Them Married: Selling Virgin Daughters

The “Get Them Married Retreat”: how a homeschool speaker is promoting trafficking and child marriage right here in the U.S.

The Battle of Peer Dependency: Part 2

How the “battle” for your kids wanting friends became framed as a battle for the hearts of your children.

The Battle of Peer Dependency

How the “battle” for your kids wanting friends became framed as a battle for the hearts of your children.

Please Don’t Deny Our Agency

  HA note: The following is reprinted with permission from Libby Anne’s blog, Love, Joy, Feminism. It was originally published on November 16, 2015. I wrote the first draft of this post last summer. I wasn’t satisfied with it as it was, so I set it aside and promptly forgot about it. A conversation with one of my sisters reminded

The Accidental World-Changers

  Photo by Darcy S., used with permission HA note: The following is reprinted with permission from Darcy’s blog, Darcy’s Heart-Stirrings. It was originally published on Oct. 8th, 2014.   They wanted to raise a generation of people who would change the world with our excellence, character, and superior skills, unafraid of doing right and standing alone. Well, here we

Awkward But Determined: Darcy’s Story

At my homeschool graduation ceremony, I received around a thousand dollars in gifts from friends and family. I decided right then and there that I would spend it on the first month of classes at the community college in the city. I didn’t have a plan, I only knew I had to do something, had to get out of our

I Can’t Save My Siblings

CC image courtesy of Flickr, Eduardo Sánchez   HA note: The following is reprinted with permission from Eleanor Skelton’s blog, The Girl Who Once Lived in a Box. It was originally published on Sept. 1st, 2015. by Eleanor Skelton, HA editorial team   Growing up homeschooled means you get a lot more time with your siblings than other kids. As an older sibling,

When We Tell Our Stories

No one is judging you for your story and your choices. They’re just telling their own.

Are You My Enemy?

Imagine that you are growing up in a culture that believes it is fighting a war. From infancy you are taught the dangers of the enemy.