About Us
Hi there! This site is run by Ron and Andrea Rennick. We’ve been homeschooling our four children since early 1994, and graduated our oldest child in 2005.
Our site is for homeschoolers who don’t fit any mold, homeschoolers who are eclectic, use a mish-mash of materials or just wing it. For all the shades of unschoolers to those with a Classical bent and everything in between, here’s a site for the rest of us.
Our goals and objectives:
* to inform parents they have a choice
* to exercise our right to educate our children as we see fit
* to support other parents to this end
* to raise the public profile
* to improve public perception of homeschoolers
* to advocate for the continuation of personal and parental freedoms
* to provide resources and information
We are available to speak at conferences and workshops, and we can discuss reprints of our articles for your magazine or newsletter. Just contact us. More about how we came to homeschool can be read here (Ron) and here (Andrea). You can also visit our family site at atypicalife.net
Could you tell Andrea that I enjoyed her article:
http://homeedmag.com/HEM/226/homeschoolblogs.html
Keep up the good work.
Comment by Henry Cate — November 7, 2005 @ 8:37 pm
You’ve misspelled “eclectic”. Thought you might like to know.
Comment by Leah Fox — November 22, 2005 @ 3:58 pm
Please add me to any mailing list, and to your list of homeschooling blogs. Thank you for your time.
Comment by Captain — January 30, 2006 @ 5:29 pm
hi i have stummbled across your website by accident and i am very curious about home education would you please if possible give me some more information .i have four children one three year old who is at partime nursery one 12year old who is at grammar school one 16yr old who is at college and 21yr old who works unhappily full time.As two of my children are now settled into school and college it is mainly for my youngest i am interested and also if i could share with my twelve year old and 16 year old (more) than what they are told to learn!thankyou nicola
Comment by nicola — October 11, 2006 @ 5:51 pm
Hi and thank you for making atypicalhomeschool.net!
I read both of your essays. I went searching for ‘homeschool burnout paradigm shift’ because I need a shift in my thinking and understanding about what it is to learn, to live, to function, to raise children into adults. I am asking God to renew my mind!! (Rom. 12)
I am going to see what else is out on the internet and I just want to say I feel we are pioneers in a new yet old way of family living, and our society is screaming for it–perhaps we are led by the Spirit to walk this path less travelled with our families. I would welcome any discussion at julie@ixo.ca
Comment by Julie Babudro — December 21, 2006 @ 9:33 pm
Hi Ron!
Sorry to use the comment section to send this, but I couldn’t find your email and wasn’t sure how else to get this to you. I just wanted to ask if there is a way to have two Library Thing widgets in my sidebar. I’ve tried going to the LT site and copy/pasting the code, but that doesn’t work. I want one for me AND one for Godzilla Boy.
Thanks for your help,
Robin
Comment by Robin — March 4, 2007 @ 11:58 am
Hi Ron and Andrea,
It’s been too long since I’ve read here – now I remember why I’ve always enjoyed your blogs so much. This time I added it to my NetNewsWire so I can keep track of your writing in the midst of the madness…
Comment by Helen — April 22, 2007 @ 2:20 am
Hi Ron and Andrea, I’m trying to implement your “recent post” plugin for wordpress mu. I have uploaded it to my mu plugins directory but Im not clear on the next step, does the function call need to be inserted in the template or a post> ANy help would be much appreciated, thanks!
Comment by Mac — April 30, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
Can you forward my e-mail address to Donna Vanderlip.
mci@irvingstudios.com
thank you
Michael C. Irving, Ph.D.
Comment by Michael C. Irving — August 31, 2007 @ 6:16 pm
So, you moved and didn’t send me your new info.
I’m still at our old info.
Miss Yah!
Lyndia
Comment by Lyndia Villeneuve — November 16, 2007 @ 12:30 pm