Blogs, Social Networking, etc.

A blog is a website of opinion, news, commentary, etc. Many homeschooling parents blog their thoughts and activities, and there are newsletters and blogs by educators too. Some blogs are posted daily, some weekly, some less often. They can offer support and inspiration, and be a wealth of ideas and information. Subscribe to some of the following for regular tips and wisdom.

Blogs by Homeschooling parents:

Sailing with Totem — a family from the Pacific NW, traveling around the world on a sailboat with their three young children.
Simple Homeschool (a homeschooling family)
Witchy Mom's Homeschool and Organic Gardens (in Maine) /
Homespun Juggling, the carnival of homeschooling
I Capture the Rowhouse, homeschooling mom with twin boys writes about homeschooling and children’s books
Learning Beyond the Book, by a homeschooling family of six
Pioneer Woman Homeschooling

Unschooling Blogs:

Just Enough and Nothing More — Where Education and Parenting Collide is a blog by Tammy Takahashi, the author of Deschooling Gently and Zenschooling, also the former editor for the California HomeSchooler magazine. Here is her (tongue-in-cheek) Ten Reasons Not to Homeschool.
No Beaten Patth — An unschooling family that loves to travel.
New York Homeschooling Leslie Kauffman writes for Examiner.com
Pat Farenga, Learning Without Schooling
Sandra Dodd’s blog
Unschool Days
An Unschooling Life

Blogs by Educators:

Charlotte Mason Home Education
Freedom to Learnn, Peter Gray's blog on education in Psychology Today
IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America) blogs on democratic education and uncharted parenting and deschooling
Parent at the Helm, by veteran homeschooler and author Linda Dobson

Local blogs:

Cabjad A black family homeschooling in NYC
A homeschooling mom in New Jersey
Teaching from Scratch
Cityschooling
Homeschooling on Hudson
The Bronx Homeschooling Examiner, by a homeschooling mom
City Schooling, by a homeschooling mom of three in Queens
Gardening blog, by a homeschooling mom
Lotsa Laundry, by Julia, a writer and homeschooling mom

Blogs by Homeschooled Teens:

Fairy Mai’s blog, by a teen with a passion for fairies
Happy Being Vegan, two teens from Tasmania talk about the vegan lifestyle
Holding the Future Hostage, by a homeschooled teen in Arizona

Other Blogs

Raising Happiness. Do you have a stressful situation at home? Are your kids stressed? Then this blog may be helpful. Christine Carter at The Greater Good writes about her sociological work on Happiness and how it is teachable. She also has a book called Raising Happiness about parenting happy kids.