We have been working on spending more time together. It’s so easy to send the kids off into the playroom and demand that they entertain themselves but we’ve decided we don’t want to be “those” parents anymore. We know that they can play by themselves sometimes but it’s unfair to them to expect that they do it all the time….
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It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas
I love this time of year…I get to play with my favorite toys! Ryan loves my toys, too. Before unschooling, I never would have let him play with these. Now I enjoy seeing him delight in playing with them, too. This picture perfectly describes my situation at home. Sometimes, I’m Hermey…sometimes I’m the Bumble… 🙂
While most kids sleep…
Mine are up doing all kinds of things. On Friday night, around 12:30am, Ryan asked me to get down a box that held some math “manipulatives” that I had purchased during our initial school-at-home phase. He then proceeded to play with all kinds of things: He and Sean sat together and played with dominoes. Ryan really loves doing that. Then…
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Roll the video tape, please.
Friends, I must share with you something very powerful that happened today. Ryan was using the video camera and was recording some Mario and Luigi toy adventures when he decided he wanted someone else to do the taping. I was smack in the middle of cleaning up a mess so I told him to ask Iain if he could help….
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Iain and Ryan
For some reason, Iain has been getting a little stressed out with his brother. It figures doesn’t it? After I wrote about all the brotherly love in our house, it put the whammy on the good vibes and shook things up a bit. Iain even went so far as to ask me if he could live with his Nana and…
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