by Spencer Mason | Aug 27, 2014 | Summer 2014, GREENHOUSE
27 Aug 2014 I’ve been homeschooling since 2009 when my oldest daughter was in the second grade, my middle daughter was three years old, and I was pregnant with my third daughter. I wish I had known then what I know now. If I could go back to 2009, here’s what I’d tell...
by Spencer Mason | Aug 13, 2014 | Summer 2014, GREENHOUSE
13 Aug 2014 Why would anybody in their right mind homeschool their children? Why would a person with a good education not work at a job that pays? Why would an adult do without the nice things that money can buy: the fun vacation, the in style clothes, the better...
by Spencer Mason | Jul 24, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE
24 Jul 2013 Each year at this time, I think about why I homeschool my children. It helps me remember the benefits and blessings when I am prone to feel most like a failure. It was finding a link to a recent article on the ChildrensMD website by medical doctor Kathleen...
by Spencer Mason | Apr 17, 2013 | Spring 2013, GREENHOUSE
17 Apr 2013 I am blessed to be raising a family of second-generation homeschoolers. My husband, Paul, was homeschooled as a missionary kid growing up in Korea and loved it, so we knew before we got married that we would homeschool our children. I want to clarify from...
by Spencer Mason | Nov 7, 2012 | Fall 2012, GREENHOUSE
Fall 2012/Laura Sailer That’s a good question. After over twenty years of homeschooling, four kids, two dogs, three high school graduations, one college graduation, one wedding and one grandchild, I think I can boil my initial motivation down to one simple answer. I...