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Best Tips for Techie Roadschooling

Best Tips for Techie Roadschooling via @themusingsofmum #TechieHomeschoolingIRL

How much of your homeschooling actually takes place at home?

Not much of ours does. In fact we spend more time on the road, than at home. Between theater rehearsals, basketball games, choir practice, weekly nature hikes, and twice monthly museum visits, I often consider ourselves road-schoolers.

No matter how wonderful and educational the outings and extra curricular activities make us feel, so…

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A lot of people have been asking me lately whether or not I *will* be homeschooling our kids. And the truth is, even though our kids aren’t yet “school-aged”, they are sponging up the world around them and I am helping to nurture their hungry minds.

This family, the Joneses, are an inspiration to me. They are a family of a mom and dad with five or six offspring, some of whom are adults now. They have been road schooling for about twenty years now, and writing about it on this blog for the past few of those years. I met the father, Andrew, about three years ago and have been following his family since.

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Roadschooling East to West: Vegas and Hoover Dam

Roadschooling East to West: Vegas and Hoover Dam

It’s normally about a four hour drive from the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas, with a speed limit of 70 most of the way. When you’re driving in the “monsoon season”, however, you might end up driving around 40 miles an hour for quite a while through driving rain, extending your trip time. Ugh.

We tried to drive on Route 66 several times during our trip. I thought it would be a cool thing to do in…

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