Are your kids headed to college? Here's a couple of great articles and resources.

Early last week I had the good fortune to attend a couple of talks hosted by Dayspring Home Educators (even though I am not a member of Dayspring). The focus of both talks were in short "What it takes to see your homeschooled middleschooler on to college". The first presentation was given by Amy and Regan Barr, a highly educated homeschooling couple who have started their own business offering online classes in Greek, Latin, Classical History and Mythology, and Grammar. This is mostly for high school level students and they have a great many homeschoolers and gifted children in their online interactive classes. Their company is called The Lukeion Project. If you have an older child and are interested in challenging classes in these topics, you can go to their website to find out more: http://www.lukeion.org/.

I also heard from Dori Staehle, who has been an Admission Counselor/ Homeschool Specialist at Campbell University, an unschooling homeschool mom, and now the owner and operator of Next Stage Educational Consulting. She is also a specialist in "gifted and talented" kids. She had a lot of the same points to make about what is lacking and needed in college students these days.

In general, the things your need to do for your kids seemed to boil down to two things: teach them how to write and do research reports, and help them to be independent people who know how to manage their time. While poking around I found a couple of great articles by Dori. This first one outlines most of what she had to say, with a special focus on "gifted" children. She also posted a great article outlining her own homeschool journey a few years ago. I feel like I have a lot in common with her story, so this resonated with me and I thought I would share. If you have a little bit of extra time this holiday to do some casual reading :) you can check it out here: A Mother's Reflections on Homeschooling.