Roger Braker: The Prosperous LifeHome Schooling Archives - Roger Braker: The Prosperous Life https://rogerbraker.com/category/home-schooling/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:33:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://rogerbraker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-cropped-head-32x32.jpg Home Schooling Archives - Roger Braker: The Prosperous Life https://rogerbraker.com/category/home-schooling/ 32 32 Homeschooling: The Stepchild of Education Part III https://rogerbraker.com/2017/05/13/homeschooling-the-stepchild-of-education-part-iii/ https://rogerbraker.com/2017/05/13/homeschooling-the-stepchild-of-education-part-iii/#respond Sat, 13 May 2017 17:10:07 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=245 One of my fondest memories of home schooling is seeing three of my children at these small desks we bought for them, my wife at the blackboard giving spelling words and my youngest child riding on her hip.  The youngest actually remembers riding on her mother’s hip during school.  Cute. This is the time of […]

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]]> One of my fondest memories of home schooling is seeing three of my children at these small desks we bought for them, my wife at the blackboard giving spelling words and my youngest child riding on her hip.  The youngest actually remembers riding on her mother’s hip during school.  Cute. This is the time of […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2017/05/13/homeschooling-the-stepchild-of-education-part-iii/feed/ 0 Homeschooling: The Stepchild of Education Part II https://rogerbraker.com/2017/04/29/homeschooling-the-stepchild-of-education-part-ii/ https://rogerbraker.com/2017/04/29/homeschooling-the-stepchild-of-education-part-ii/#respond Sun, 30 Apr 2017 03:56:15 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=241   Quite a few years ago my oldest daughter got her first job at a SONIC restaurant.  After about two weeks, she came home one night and said, “I now understand why you homeschooled us.  All the kids at work smoke, drink, have sex and half the girls are pregnant.” But let me back up […]

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]]>   Quite a few years ago my oldest daughter got her first job at a SONIC restaurant.  After about two weeks, she came home one night and said, “I now understand why you homeschooled us.  All the kids at work smoke, drink, have sex and half the girls are pregnant.” But let me back up […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2017/04/29/homeschooling-the-stepchild-of-education-part-ii/feed/ 0 Homeschooling: The Step Child of Education! https://rogerbraker.com/2017/04/01/homeschooling-the-step-child-of-education/ https://rogerbraker.com/2017/04/01/homeschooling-the-step-child-of-education/#comments Sat, 01 Apr 2017 22:17:26 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=228   President Trump’s new Secretary of Education, Ms. Betsy DeVos is proposing school choice and vouchers and is not opposed to homeschooling. She has helped keep school choice in the news. About 35 years ago Sharon and I began to entertain the idea of teaching our children at home.   I was listening to Paul Harvey […]

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]]>   President Trump’s new Secretary of Education, Ms. Betsy DeVos is proposing school choice and vouchers and is not opposed to homeschooling. She has helped keep school choice in the news. About 35 years ago Sharon and I began to entertain the idea of teaching our children at home.   I was listening to Paul Harvey […]

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]]> https://rogerbraker.com/2017/04/01/homeschooling-the-step-child-of-education/feed/ 2 It’s A Miracle! (First posted in 2016) https://rogerbraker.com/2016/11/18/its-a-miracle/ https://rogerbraker.com/2016/11/18/its-a-miracle/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2016 01:41:04 +0000 Roger Braker https://rogerbraker.com/?p=199 John Dewey and his associates knew what they were setting out to do would take longer than their lifetimes. They also learned that to put their ideas into children’s heads at such an early age they needed their like-minded people teaching in the colleges.

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]]> John Dewey and his associates knew what they were setting out to do would take longer than their lifetimes. They also learned that to put their ideas into children’s heads at such an early age they needed their like-minded people teaching in the colleges.

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