by WhitneyCrowell | Oct 19, 2020 | NCHE Blog, DNPE, Homeschool Law, Testing
by NCHE Guest Contributor Whitney Cranford Crowell Out of all the months of the year, October is perhaps the one most associated with the ghoulish and the ghostly. But no witch or goblin could ever strike fear into the hearts of new homeschoolers as much as our...
by WhitneyCrowell | Sep 22, 2020 | Fall 2020, GREENHOUSE
Fall 2020/ Whitney Cranford Crowell The summer that my husband and I decided to finally take the plunge and homeschool our eight-year-old daughter, I was on top of the world. I entertained cozy fantasies of us at our kitchen table, huddled over shared pages like two...
by WhitneyCrowell | Aug 17, 2020 | NCHE Blog, Encouragement, Community, Peace
By Guest Contributor Whitney Cranford Crowell My mom’s friend Jane is the kind of person who calls it like she sees it. Years ago, after a harrowing day of wrangling her three small children, she eyed my mother with a frazzled look. “The problem with parenting,” she...