Carnival of Homeschooling – Celebrity Birthdays Edition

Welcome to the October 19, 2010 Celebrity Birthdays edition of carnival of homeschooling. In search of the meaning behind October 19, I didn’t find any good holidays or well-known historical events, autumn was already taken (last week), and it’s too early for Halloween. So, I collected some celebrities whose birthday is October 19.

A young Amy Carter, Daughter of President Jimmy Carter, with her cat, named Misty Malarky Ying Yang.

nak presents Autumn Miracles posted at Sage Parnassus

Jim Edwards tells us about Buying Shoes for Children without Pain via EverydayChristianFamily.com, saying, “How to make certain your children have shoes that won’t deform their feet.”

Katherine presents a homeschooling family posted at No Fighting, No Biting!, saying, “With my husband taking over our oldest’s math instruction, the only person in our family NOT homeschooling is the baby.”

Cristina Payne shares Home Spun comic strip #539 posted at Home Spun Juggling.

Every Destination Needs A Starting Point: My Personal Evolution Series via Jessica Snajder at Teachable Moments.

Free Range Learning: Book Review via Susan Gaissert at The Expanding Life

Susan shares Bird Montage Drawing via Stitching Life.

Ty Pennington, TV personality and carpenter

Mama Squirrel presents Shopping Bag Homeschool: thrifty but fun plan for an animal-loving couch potato posted at Dewey’s Treehouse

Samantha presents Reflections on Homeschooling: Schoolwork Is NOT Always Fun For Children posted at To Be Busy at Home.

Chris McGinn presents B and D letter confusion and my first download! posted at MOB:Mothers of Boys, saying, “A post about a game I created to review words with “b” and “d” in them (like bed, dad, did, bib, etc) with free download. I’m a new blog, just getting started . . .”

AnnieKate presents Review: Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe posted at Tea Time with Annie Kate, saying, “A great book for us homeschooling moms!”

Sarah at SmallWorld presents Making Grammar Relevant with Facebook Faux Pas posted at SmallWorld, saying, “What do grammar and Facebook have to do with each other? Not enough! This post provides a selection of exercises for your student to edit—straight from Facebook.”

Dave Roller presents In Praise of The Carnival of Homeschooling posted at Home School Dad, saying, “Just a lititle meta-post about why I like this carnival so much.”

Grover Norquist - President president of taxpayer advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform.

Denise presents Week 6: Comments, Comments, and More Comments posted at Blogging 2 Learn, saying, “My homeschool co-op blogging class learns that writing blog posts is fun, but the best part of blogging is the give and take of commenting.”

Denise says Sign Up Now for the Math Challenge posted at Let’s Play Math!, saying, “Here’s a great chance to let your children (K-12) play around with math online: the American Math Challenge is now open!”

Susan Gaissert presents Race to Nowhere: Film Review posted at The Expanding Life.

Barbara Frank has advice For the Distractible Writer via Barbara Frank Online A homeschooling mom/writer shares a writing tool that will help parents and children.

Linda Dobson presents A Childhood Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: School-Induced Stress posted at PARENT AT THE HELM, saying, “Thank you!”

ChristineMM asks Who Should Decide About Homeschooling: Kids or the Parents? at The Thinking Mother, shares thoughts about who in the family should decide if homeschooling should continue or not.

Actor John Lithgow

Jamie Gaddy asks Playing… Is it Learning? posted at Faith and a Full House…, asking, “Is play an integral part of a child’s ability to learn? I believe so, and think that children could learn a whole lot more with a little more fun!”

Jessica Snajder presents Imagine posted at Teachable Moments.

Pamela Jorrick has had Enough with the Dire Predictions posted at Blah, Blah, Blog.

Henry Cate of Why Homeschool asks Did you know about the Unschooling Channel?
Pat Farenga recently appeared on the Unschooling Channel.
Kathy of Homeschoolbuzz Reviews gives us A Review of WriteGuide.com: My 10th grader (Garrison) just completed a one-month course at WriteGuide.com. I am so completely satisfied with the experience that I can definitely recommend it to any parent wishing to improve their student’s writing skills.

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