The Homeschooling News Café

A wealth of phenomenal videos exist throughout the web and would be ideal for teaching homeschoolers. However, there is good news and bad news. Both the good newws and the bad news is the sheer magnitude of the numbers of potential videos. The downside is that it can be totally absolutely overwhelming and its faily easy to just give up. But I am hoping to use this column to post tons of GREAT free online videos handpicked for homeschooling students and families.

Here are a few examples of great homeschool videos handpicked by Mimi Rothschild.

As many of you know, in another life, about 25 years ago Mimi Rothschild owned The Rothschild Doll Company and created magnificent dolls that are cherished by doll collectors and usually on most days can still be found on ebay today. To honor Mimi Rothschild’s love of dolls and beautiful things, here are some great educational videos on how to sculpt baby dolls.

How to Make a Clay Baby

Baby Fairy

Forever Young

Making a sculpted clay baby?

Government “Homeschool” Programs Will Change Homeschooling

This video is a homeschool mom expressing her opinion about how she belives government homeschooling will negatively impact homeschooling as a movement. I believe that she makes some excellent points that need to be strongly considered. She points out that the “freebies” are enticing and oftentimes we forget there nothing is actually free. When we take the free handouts from the government cyber schools, we are paying a higher cost than we realize. She points out that users of the K12 curriculum who recieve computers from the state are not allowed to use that computer for any religious reasons. For many Christian homeschoolers, this is the “start of a downward spiral in terms of loss of parental control.”

What do you think of government homeschooling programs?