i love rainy days

It has been mentioned once twice that the boys are huge video game fans. Well add that to a new passion of coloring pictures of their favorite characters. We have had an explosion around here of artistic expression, everything from coloring pages off the Internet to making their won creations in Paint or Kid Pix. Iain and Ryan took it…
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A side note here, one of my fairly recent posts was a review of A.S. Neill’s book, Freedom-Not License and in that review I wrote down the following: While this book echoes many of the sentiments and ideals expressed by people like Sandra Dodd, A. S. Neill’s philosophy is different in some ways. He definitely feels there is a line…
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Last night, Iain and I read a book from the Magic Tree House series called, A Knight at Dawn. At the end of the book there was an advertisement for a website related to the book series where one can go and play games. Iain was all over it. That boy loves anything to do with games and computers! Anyway,…
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My husband hates the term “play date” and has instead coined the phrase “kid mosh” to describe what happens when the boys get together with their friends. It is infinitely more appropriate. Today, Ryan had his friend Daniel over and all three boys had such a good time. Before unschooling, these types of get togethers would really stress me out….
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