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.

Gifts and Wound: ElenaLee’s Story

ElenaLee blogs at Our Place. A blogger I very much respect once spoke of events in her life bringing both a gift and a wound. A gift and a wound—I carry this imagery with me like a familiar piece of jewelry or some small memento, some reminder of where I have been and of where I hope to go. The

Crooked Arrow: Smith Lingo’s Story

I realized from a very early age that my dad cared more about me as an idea than about me as a person, a discrete, tangible being.

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,

You Are Their Child, But You Are NOT Their Property: Rose’s Story

What I’ve realized over the past couple of years is that my dad has these standards that are impossibly high and there is no way in heaven that anyone could possibly meet them (not even God).

Picking Things Up from the Culture, Homeschool Edition

“For all of homeschooling parents’ rhetoric about how ‘peer dependent’ public schooled children are, we homeschooled children could be quite influenced by our homeschooled peers.”

I Shall Not Live in Vain: Jael’s Story

“It was not so much homeschooling that traumatized me as much as my mother’s mental illness. This was hidden by homeschooling, and the pain that damaged me came from the constant exposure to her psychiatric illness. I feel like someone roasted me over a fire, leaving me with burns to rest the remainder of my life, and I didn’t even know at the time what fire was.”

I Just Want to Be Normal: Alice’s Story

“I’m a teenager. Yes, I need to be responsible and help watch the kids while she works, but I want a life.”

A Sister, Not a Parent: Sage Lynn’s Story

“My mom quickly told me that ‘if you can get along with your siblings, you can get along with anyone.'”