ARCHERS, The Association of Relaxed Christian Home Educators.

The relaxed homeschooling method is advocated and taught by Mary Hood, author of "The Relaxed Homeschool" and "The Joyful Homeschooler".

Mary wrote some guidelines for our elist:

This is primarily intended to be a place that moms will get support/friendship on issues pertaining to homeschooling, and also on related issues... So it is always okay to
discuss family-related issues, from discipline to bedwetting, to teenage issues, etc. Prayer requests, answers to prayer, etc. are also always okay. We don't have to limit the topics strictly to homeschooling.

The following are things I hope will stay OUT of the list:
-Blatant advertising by people who aren't regular chatters...
-Politics/legal alerts, etc. There are plenty of other places to talk about these matters, and they just tend to "stir up the juices" when we are reading this just before bed....Let's really try to keep this list
something more like a chat with a few good friends just before retiring..
-All nasty talk...to each other, about each other or other people, etc. I've really appreciated the lack of gossip in this group and hope it stays that way ..
-Although my resource center/Archers group doesn't have a statement of faith, we are of course, a Christian environment (Hence the name....ARCHERS stands for Association of Relaxed Christian Home Educator R's... Also based on Psalm 127....So basically, no slamming of Christianity or Jesus, no blatant new-age agendas, etc.....Although, again, we are not a completely exclusive group of people here, and we try not to act super judgemental towards others.

Moderators are Donna C in Texas, Cathy in Georgia, and Sheila in Canada. Mary Hood is on the list also.