My friend, Dixie Hacker, is returning to my show after almost a year and we will be talking about balance in the homeschool. Tune in to learn how she has had to adapt her ...
Balancing academics with hands on work and service is the key to successful homeschooling for Janita Pavelka and her family. She has four children and together they have used the Moore ...
Join me this week with guest Laureen Hudson, one of the featured homeschoolers on TodayShow.com who did an article entitled, Movable Feast: Homeschooling in the World. Laureen ...
Once again Mike Donnelly is going to be joining me from the Home School Legal Defense Association where he serves as staff attorney and director of international relations. We will be ...
My Texan talked about his career at Daughts’ college. I reflect on having friends and making do with my brother for company when I was young. I discuss how I created my unique ...
I am involved in Stephen Ministry at church. I have a blank page journal to express my thoughts creatively without the confines of lines! The Texas State Fair is going on. I have ...
My oldest daughter, the child magnet, comes back to town from the boonies and decides to move into her own apartment and return to college. Sonlight is celebrating 20 years as a ...
My blue-eyed cowboy and I prepare for a trip, without children, to Costa Rica. My mother is beginning to worry me with some of the things she says. I uncover Letter Boxing as a hobby ...
College starts and Daughts is off, to the local Community one! I go to the Dallas Zoo to visit my son. I take a closer look at the Welfare State in England. Lisa Bracken joins me from ...
Daughter and I are discovering a London we didn’t know. On our journey back to America I am stopped by customs again. My guest this week is my intrepid traveling companion and daughter, ...
I visit some of the neighbours in my mother’s London flat to get a good feel for the lay of the land. We talk about questions brought up by a visit to Dachau and the holocaust. This ...
I make observations on how England is very different to America now that I’ve lived away for so long. I remember how my brother and I coped with a foreign country when my father was ...
Immersion is the best teacher, I talk this week about having our own family core values not someone else’s. I’m visiting my Mum in England with Daughts as a travelling ...
I am preparing to go to England with Daughts again after we close The Garland Summer Musicals. I support our oldest son at his church and youngest daughter is stressing about ...
My oldest daughter turned 21 this week, in Arkansas. I miss her! I reminisce about what was happening in my life 21 years ago. I ask the question what does mentoring look like? ...
There are more 4th July activities to recount. I continue with my excerpt about theatre as a homeschooling activity. Our cars all failed us this week and the credit card was left ...
This week I am dog sitting which brings to mind the many McNeny household pets we’ve had over the years. My youngest and I begin the hunt for an appropriate college. I warn my ...
We are into the long hot summer’s days. My mother-in-law’s husband died and things change in our house while preparations are made for his memorial and her immediate ...
My home office has moved to the garden room where the view of the outside in full bud is refreshing. Cooking and taking time off from the theatre between weekends makes me ...
Hello I'm Vivienne McNeny, English to the core and I've just put the kettle on so while its boiling let me tell you a little about myself. I was raised in a convent boarding school while my parents diplomatically hosted cocktail parties at foreign Embassies. After performing in operettas as leading men and prima ballerinas I read child psychology at London Uni; flipped my speedboat while racing in the channel; taught windsurfing and water ski-ing in Southern Andalucia; an American fell in love with me in London and I took up homeschooling in Texas before our children were too old to object.