Doesn’t matter if you’re only thinking of homeschooling, just beginning you home education journey, are deep in the trenches doing high school from home, or a long time veteran who has even graduated some of your kids from home school, the Carnival of Homeschooling is the place to be. Whatever stage you’re at, you’re sure to find some good reading. Boy, we homeschoolers are a talented lot .

This week the Carnival of Homeschooling is being hosted by Andrea from the Atlanta Homeschooling Examiner; the theme is Spring Fever. Good stuff, but bring your own popcorn – seems her popcorn machine is broken

Ahhh….OK now….ah what was I doing? . . . . . Oh, I remember, I was getting ready to write a post about the brick wall that has hit our home school. No kidding, there we were working diligently on homeschooling and WHAM! -  it jumped right in front of us.

Seriously, five plus years into home educating and this is the first time I’ve felt it would be easier to trudge a mile in waist deep mud than finish assignments or anything for that matter. Brand new experience and I’m not liking it so much. We are all so ready for a break, a long, long as in really, really long. But it seems soooo far away, especially now with that brick wall in the way! Sigh. Bigger sigh.

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It’s time for a reader question – how can I make HomeschoolThroughHighschool more useful for you? This is a question that I plan to begin asking every 6 to 12 months.

Why? Because I want to constantly be improving this blog, making it more effective in helping you with your homeschooling journey. I really want to hear your thoughts, so to help stimulate the discussion, here are some areas you might want to comment on:

• Topics - are there topics (specific or general) you’d like to see covered in the coming months? What are the main issues, challenges, and questions that you’re facing as a homeschooling family? What would you like covered for the remainder of the year?

• Types of Posts – reader questions, tutorials, short tips, guest posts, product reviews, news related to family & homeschoolers…. have your say about what you’d like most/least

• Posting Frequency – too many posts, not enough, just right?

• Design – I still have a lot to learn in this area, but are there any design features or changes that you would like to see?

• Blog Features – what would make your reader experience better?

• Community – Are there features that you’d like added to help you connect more with other HomeschoolThroughHighschool readers?

• Services and Tools – what could HomeschoolThroughHighschool offer you to help you improve, make easier your home education experience?

• What Frustrates You about HomeschoolThroughHighschool? What is Best about it?

• Other Ideas and Feedback – anything goes, big or little.

The ‘Rules’ - Any feedback, suggestions, dreams or ideas that you have are more than welcome! I can’t promise to respond to each comment or put every suggestion into place, but I do promise that I will to read anything & everything you have to say.

All that I ask in return is that you be honest, courteous and constructive with your feedback.

HomeschoolThroughHighschool is a project that I pour a lot of time and effort into – as a result sometimes criticism can be a little difficult to hear. However, hearing your honest thoughts are vital if HTH is to continue to be a valuable resource for homeschoolers wanting to improve their homeschool endeavors.

So…now it’s your turn . Feel free to either leave your feedback in the comments section below or share them privately with me via my Contact Page.

It doesn’t matter if you are [tag-tec]home schooling a high schooler[/tag-tec] or have an eight year old enrolled in public or private school, you are responsible for your child’s education. You & I are responsible for what our children learn, whether at home or in an institutionalized setting. What’s more, the responsibility for education doesn’t stop when the clock hits a magic hour.

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