Will there be any kind of moderation on your end in terms of parenting philosophy that is endorsed? I don’t expect a complete lack of punishment or spanking. Just protection from the culture of abuse being embrace by more and more Christians.

I’ve had a few hours to consider this question. I think mostly that I am saddened by the fact that moderation may be necessary for something other than a spam blog or link farm blog. It isn’t as though Andrea and I had not discussed this more than once in the months leading up to getting the domain and space to run it. In fact, we had talked about the homeschool journal site before we started this one. And we have always understood and agreed that removing an offensive blog might be necessary.

But, offering homeschoolers a place to blog where they didn’t have to advertise or promote something was worth that risk. The story of Sean Paddock (see below) may mean that an ‘if’ has turned into a ‘when’.

Andrea and I set up homeschooljournal.net to allow homeschooling families to talk about homeschooling. I would personally like our society to have the opportunity to see that we are not all nut cases.

What was done to Sean Paddock had nothing to do with homeschooling. Not all children who endure such treatment, or other forms of abuse, die and if the statistics are reliable, the vast majority of those children are not homeschooled. I would expect a parent might talk about parenting philosophy because it does play a part in home education. I talk about parenting philosophy in this blog. What I would not expect is a set of instructions for crime and punishment under the guise of ‘discipline’. One of the reasons I was satisfied with the name homeschooljournal is that the name creates a line in the sand.

Doing this is a new adventure for both of us. Perhaps, I’m really trying to address 2 questions: Do I want to ‘moderate’ a blog? No. Would I? Yep.