Atheist Homeschool

Sponge, Computer or incomprehensible blob of amazingness?
Two metaphors that have evolved to reflect the workings of the human mind are “a child’s brain is like a sponge” and “the brain is like a computer.” Although well-intentioned, the limitations of these models have resulted in educational practices that fail to address the true nature of how children learn, and subsequently lend themselves […]
Write something, win something
The Unschooler’s Emporium is having a drawing for $50 worth of products from their site. They sell unschooling related Tshirts, paintings, books, eBooks, and other products made by unschoolers, for unschoolers. To enter the drawing, submit an original article, to be published on their blog, using one of the following topics: - What does Unschooling […]
A Valedictorian speaks out against schooling
If you haven’t read Erica Goldson’s Valedictorian speech, go check it out. Basically, she “calls out” the insane practice of institutionalized education, as she experienced it. SIDE NOTE- Kelly Hallordson, an unschooling mom and blogger, was able to sit down with Erica shortly after this speech hit the interwebs and recorded their conversation, at a […]
Are you that parent?
Are you the one who breaks the conventional parenting wisdom and just lets your kids be kids? You’re in good company. When Flo Gascon confessed that she’s the mom who let her kids eat ice cream for breakfast, unschoolers from all over the world fought over who got the “That mom” title. Soon, I imagine […]
Free John Taylor Gatto book – The Underground History of American Education
I know a lot of people have been passing around The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? It’s a good thing, the post is informative and enlightening. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s part of John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education, which is […]

Rewriting “the Rules”

Apparently there’s a revolution underway. I’m not the only one rewriting the rules. I’m glad I’ve never heard of this guy, this columnist John Rosemond whose work is syndicated into newspapers all over the US. Anyway he has this ridiculously miserable set of rules designed to make children as miserable as possible during their indoctrination. [...]

If I had to choose a religion…

I guess if I HAD to choose a religion, I’d totally join up with the Zombie Princess because, well, she rocks.

Pessimism

I know I’m guilty of it (pessimism, that is) every now and then, but just now I got one of those forwarded emails, the one that has like ten thousand email addresses in the header where it’s been forwarded a million times. When I get those, it makes me wish I knew who buys email [...]

No market for Secular curriculum?

I was pleased to find that the Orlando Atheism Examiner included a link to my website in her recent article titled Secular Homechoolers find Darwin on their Own, discussing the recent news (duh) about the fact that most homeschool science books bash the idea of evolution. I had to laugh (snort, actually) when I scrolled [...]

“Letting Kids Decide”

I love it when a mixed-religion couple, like a Catholic and a Lutheran, for example, decide to let their kids decide what religion they’ll be. It cracks me up that they think it’s possible to indoctrinate a child with two very limited and nonsensical perspectives, then think that the child will come to some inner-driven [...]

Relax, we’re making all of this up

I love this poster, the caption says “Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who is his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood, while telepathically telling him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your [...]

Waterboarding a toddler?

Oh for Christ’s sake- this fucking idiot tortured his 4 yr old daughter because she didn’t know her ABC’s. So- this jerk probably didn’t start out this way, I’m sure he was born normal just like everyone else. He learned this particular brand of insanity from the US Armed Forces. Sargeant Joshua Tabor served 15mos [...]

Stupid Christian Facebook Statuses

Here are just a few of the Stupid Christian Facebook Statuses showing on my board. What about you? Are there any you find particularly annoying? Add them to the comment section. Hopefully some bozo who googles “Christian Statuses for Facebook” will find us. Consider it reverse evangelism – WAKE UP YOU IDIOTS. YOU ARE YOUR [...]

Caption this crazy religious picture

Oh wow- this could be a regular feature here at AtheistHomeschool.com Think of a caption for this picture. I stole it from the blog of a Christian lady, who says her kids were saying “Bow down to Jesus” as they played. Have fun… best comment wins… um… the joy of knowing that you made all [...]

Free magazine offer

If you haven’t heard of Rethinking Everything Magazine, you totally need to go check it out and get your free copy of their debut issue. It’s an ad-free digital format magazine that has empowering stories of change; people who have made a profound decision in their life and been transformed because of it. I planned [...]

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