Man! Things have been crazy around here! I turn around and look at the blog and I haven’t posted anything since TUESDAY??? What the heck??! Well, on Wednesday we had some friends over for most of the day and it was great! Jill (Homeschool Mama here) and her two boys came over for a picnic, only it was raining that…
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Can’t we all just get along?
Filed Under: family, holiday, unschooling
Recently I followed a link to a blog that had taken a pretty hard stance against unschooling. The blog author had read an essay written by a teenager who was urging parents to consider their child’s feelings and interests and she considered his essay to be “horseshit”. I’m not providing any links because she has gotten enough attention already but…
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Counting by 12’s a.k.a. Doughnut Math
Filed Under: unschooling
Today we purchased our math curriculum. It’s quite effective. Today, we bought a dozen doughnuts. Yes, you read that right. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Our math curriculum is doughnuts oh, and doughnut holes. On the way home from the store, we began discussing how many doughnuts were in a dozen. That led to the number of doughnuts in…
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Election Year Musings
Filed Under: family, photography, politics, unschooling
For the first time in their young lives, my children are interested in politics. Of course, that’s not too much of a surprise since they’re only 8 and 6 but still I find their interest in it exciting. My own political and religious views often surprise my children and we have many, many conversations about things that would probably shock…
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Baseball Season is Over!
Filed Under: friends, news, socializing, us
Wow! What an experience! Iain really loved playing baseball and has told me I don’t know how many times. He has more self-confidence when playing this game when compared to soccer and it’s easy to see that he has really benefitted form this experience. His coach, while one of the worst pitchers I’ve ever seen, was really good about making…
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