Think of something that started out new then gradually wore old. It might be a clean softball, a bike with no rust, a fresh coat of nail polish, or a brand new year. Tell the story of how it began bright and shiny then grew worn and well-used.
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It’s not possible to homeschool without regret.
One of my favorite homeschooling moms wrote to me a while ago. She’s been with Brave Writer since early 2000. Her kids have taken a slew of online classes, she owns our products, and she has graduated several of her kids. They are awesome, by the way. Quite a family!
Her email, then, came a bit as a surprise. “What do I do with regret?” she asked me. She said that although she is happy with many of her choices in home education, at this other end where most of her kids are adults, she is wiser and more aware of resources now. There are experiences her kids didn’t get when homeschooled. There are ideas that seem so bright, shiny, and fun now that she didn’t know to pursue then.
As much as she wants to just “let it go,” her imagination lingers on the feeling that she simply didn’t do enough for her kids when she had the chance. So what now?
I talked about this topic in the live broadcast below. We looked at regret—what to do about it while you are still homeschooling, and then what to do with the post-homeschool regrets that are sure to come to you too.
Here are the ten most popular Brave Writer Life in Brief blog posts published in 2016.
Enjoy!
1. Ten 30-Second Writing Exercises
3. 10 Things to Have Done by the End of High School
4. 5 Tips for Your Morning Routine
5. What an Enchanted Education is NOT
6. Table Top Gaming and Homeschooling
7. Resistance in Writing: Drop the Rope
8. When Your Teen has a Bad Attitude
9. The Natural Stages of Growth as a Home Educator
10. 2016 Brave Writer Retreat Recap
We share poetry titles on our Poetry Teatime website and Pinterest board. Suggested books often come from the featured teatimes of Brave Writer families. Below are the titles we highlighted during 2016. Enjoy!
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Echo, Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths by Marilyn Singer
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O’Connell George
Around the World on Eighty Legs: Animal Poems by Amy Gibson
Poems in the Attic by Nikki Grimes
Surprises by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Zoo of Emotions by Teneisha Jones
Mary Had A Little Jam: And Other Silly Rhymes by Bruce Lansky
Sea Star Wishes by Eric Ode
For Laughing Out Loud: Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone by Jack Prelutsky
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky
Truckery Rhymes by Jon Scieszka
I’m Nobody Who Are You? Poems of Emily Dickinson for Young People edited by Rex Schneider
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold by Joyce Sidman
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
Every Day Birds by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen
Home Grown House by Janet Wong
The Poetry of Science: The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong
National Geographic’s Book of Nature Poetry
A Child’s Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry by Michael Driscoll
Don’t forget about our Poetry Anthology: Poetry Teatime Companion!
We designed it with Poetry Teatime in mind.
Image by Poetry Teatime mom Kathleen
Julie Bogart (center) and The Brave Writer Staff (clockwise): Nancy Graham, Tia Levings,
Paula Horton, Stephanie Elms, Debba Haupert, Jeannette Hall, Cindy Clark
The Brave Writer Staff is taking time to be with family over the holiday! There won’t be any email correspondence from us between now and the 26th.
Have a wonderful end of the year celebration with your family!
