May 15, 2016 at 7:42 am

I am new to blogging. I actually like the writing sites. I am on several and I have learned a lot from them. From what I have read from others having your own blog is lots of work with little to no pay, at least with the writing sites you can do something you enjoy, socialize,  and earn a little money.

May 15, 2016 at 10:46 am

@Lee Ka  BMN stayed only for about a fortnight or so. It went viral within days of launch and I guess, the site admin hadn’t expected the site to grow so much within a short span of time. He himself admitted this in his official statement announcing the closure. He assured that the pending redemptions would be paid but that never happened. The worst thing is that the site is still there. You cannot delete your profile or your posts there. Probably the admin is still earning revenue because of the posts you wrote there and you can do nothing about it.

May 16, 2016 at 7:27 am

@ruby3881 Thanks for telling me about the copyright. I read that from you in another thread.
I am happy that you know about Waldorf and Charlotte Mason. I am quite interested in Charlotte Mason as well, but I have not really look into it yet. There is another educational approach, Reggio Emilia Approach which is quite interesting too.
I am not sure if I really want to share my homeschooling blog at the moment, but I will definitely work on it later, as I think it might be helpful for those who want to homeschool.
Do you still have your homeschooling blog? Would you mind sharing?

@melissa1024 I think if you set up your own website or blog, you might be able to earn well if you really spend time and study about how to do it. I enjoy the social part of these writing sites as well, and learning from each other too.

@swalia It’s only 2 weeks, and the admin already gave up? So, there’s really nothing else you can do with your profile and posts? Then I’d prefer how Bubblews did, at least he closed down the site, though I would like to retrieve my posts there.

May 16, 2016 at 8:22 am

@kaka135 Sadly no, I let the homeschooling blog go some time ago 🙁

We followed the Charlotte Mason approach for our first few years, but modified it to our girls’ needs. I used a lot of the materials from the Ambleside Online curriculum. If you haven’t checked them out, you should take a look and see if anything they offer is useful to you for now or as you plan for the future. The materials are mostly free online 🙂

I am vaguely familiar with Reggio Emilia. Apparently it’s very similar to Montessori. My niece attends a school that uses this approach, and my sister is very pleased with it.

Another resource I used a lot was the Baldwin Online children’s lit site, which has a lot of vintage texts that are used as resources with Waldorf and Charlotte Mason. And we used LibriVox to find human-read audiobooks of many classics. That was priceless when the girls were still very young.