About Me


Hi! I'm Sherri Linsenbach, Publisher and Editor of the online homeschool magazine, www.EverythingHomeschooling.com. Our Everything Homeschooling magazine provides daily lesson plan ideas, plus hands-on activities, virtual field trips, unit studies, and other educational ideas.

At the same time, our online homeschool magazine offers everything one would associate with a print magazine - helpful homeschool articles, homeschool information, and homeschool news.

However, our magazine also offers frequent, timely updates - weekly and daily - which print magazines often can't provide. With a subscription rate of just $15.95 per year - for 12 monthly issues AND weekly lesson plans - it's a superior bargain!

I hope you will enjoy your subscription to our online homeschool magazine. And I hope we can help you and your children experience a fun, happy, and successful homeschool adventure, and a wonderful future!

Below is a recent news article on EverythingHomeschooling.com:

Affordable Homeschooling Online

Now parents have an alternative to expensive homeschool programs or correspondence schools. The online homeschool magazine, www.EverythingHomeschooling.com, provides daily lesson plan ideas for parents, plus hands-on activities, virtual field trips, and other educational ideas.

"Our intent," says publisher, Sherri Linsenbach, "is to provide a place where parents can go each morning - or even once a week - to get daily lesson plan ideas. Our goal is to help busy families, working parents, or single parents who want to homeschool their children. In just moments, they have access to everything they need for the upcoming homeschool week.

"While they're on the site, they can also get daily creative writing ideas, fun hands-on experiments or projects, visit the educational calendar for more ideas, take the virtual field trips, or read the articles on homeschooling. Or they can come back later for those, when they have more time."

Graduating from Homeschool

The site does not offer one-on-one tutoring; however, the editors will answer any questions about lessons, activities, or homeschooling. The site also does not offer a diploma upon a child's graduation. However, an example of a diploma can be downloaded from the site.

"The high-school diploma can often be awarded by the parent. When you've provided the lesson plans for your children, kept records of their learning activities, and kept a high-school transcript of their credits, you're ready to have your graduation celebration and reward your child with his or her high-school diploma."

According to Linsenbach, the transcript is key for awarding the diploma. It tracks the credits accumulated throughout the high-school years and is proof that children have earned their diploma. Blank transcripts and other record-keeping logs are also available for downloading from the www.EverythingHomeschooling.com site.

But what about unschooling? "Unschoolers can earn credits as easily as those who follow a more structured homeschool schedule. No one is more in-tune with the progress a child makes in his or her life than the parents. Parents of unschoolers know this, and they can easily keep the high school transcript if they choose. They can also award a diploma to their child if they choose.

"To many, though, a diploma is not important, nor necessary for entering college," Linsenbach explains. "There can be other, and better, ways to show that one has earned the equivalent of a high-school education."

Learning in the Real World

Linsenbach firmly believes that education is not something that just happens in a traditional school. "People need to understand this," she says. "Traditional schooling methods are quickly becoming 'old school'. There truly is no need for anyone - a child or an adult - to sit in an enclosed classroom in today's world."

Linsenbach notes that most homeschoolers and unschoolers can barely grasp that children still must sit in classrooms today. Most believe that the reason is because "It's always been done that way." Or because parents don't understand how easily they could provide a well-rounded education for their own children.

"Real learning is out here," Linsenbach stresses. "Out here in the real world is where children experience true learning that clicks with them, that makes sense to them. Out here, children have fresh air, space and time for explorations and discoveries, opportunities to teach themselves, and children have their family and friends. That's the real world.

"If there's something that they can't learn 'out here' for some reason, there's always the Internet for families to research. A world of information is available at any time in two distinct, easy-to-access locations: public libraries or the Internet. Learning does not have to take place between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. It can take place at 6:00 a.m. or at 8:00 at night.

"Learning is not something that can be turned on at a certain time and turned off when the bell rings. It's not something that can be forced upon a person or a child. That's extremely counter-productive to true learning."

Freedom to Learn

"When children have freedom to learn, at any time of the day or night, in the comfort and safety of their homes, with the persons who love them the most as their guide, real learning - and love of learning - abounds.

"That's why we are here for parents. To provide them with the help they need in the form of lessons, educational activities, or fun learning ideas. To encourage them and to let them know that, yes, indeed, their children can learn at home - and become wiser, smarter, and have a better future, because of it!"


Sherri Perkinson Linsenbach is publisher of www.EverythingHomeschooling.com, an online homeschool magazine and Internet site for homeschool help and learning ideas. She is also the owner of AccuWrite Professionals Writing, Marketing, and Editing Services, at www.AccuWriteProfessionals.com.