Now I don’t know all the details as I’ve got most of them second-hand. In addition, I won’t mention anyone by name, because I haven’t asked permission to talk about it. However, I happen to know all the protagonists, and I am both very proud and a little emotional about it, and I [...]
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I wish I could draw cartoons, this would be a suitable medium to describe what we did. Alternately, video would be handy… April 20th, 2009 | Tags: experiment, flight, parachute | Category: Education, Family, children | Leave a comment
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Here am I, sitting at my friend’s computer at 7 o’clock in the morning, thinking how wonderful it is to see her and her family. All is well. All manner of things are well. December 27th, 2008 | Category: Family, Personal, children | Leave a comment
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Pretty neat, isn’t it? I don’t know about you, but it’s been a tough year for me, for my entire family. There’s been job loss with the corresponding loss of income. My mother-in-law passed away just two days before my husband’s birthday, four days before mine. There’s been some degree of depression (not necessarily clinical, just [...] November 25th, 2008 | Tags: Family, friends, gratefullness, thanks, Thanksgiving | Category: Family, Personal, children | Leave a comment
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Two days ago, Saturday November 15th, my middle daughter approaches me with a plan for her older sister’s 14th birthday. She wanted to blow out a party, with room rental, a guest list, cake, food, music, and a THEME. I [...] Have you heard about this? A 5 year-old kindergartener known to suffer from ADD and Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, was kicked out of his classroom… after his teacher — his “TEACHER!“— asked his 16 classmates to tell him what they don’t like about him, then vote whether or not to let him rejoin [...] May 29th, 2008 | Tags: children, homeschool | Category: Education, Rant, Social Commentary, children | One comment
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Tai’s latest song, made up on the fly. This one’s a true “Heart Song”.Wearing headphones? Be careful, it’s rather loud.The Heart Song, by Tainn S. We can all be thankful that California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is very much on the side of parental rights. The San Francisco website SFGate.com reports the “Governor vows to protect homeschooling”. March 8th, 2008 | Tags: children, homeschool | Category: Education, Social Commentary, children, homeschool | Leave a comment
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Latest on Tue, 10:19 : Hi, My name is Donna Wilcox, I am working with BikeAthens this semester, I'm not sure if you have heard of them, but after reading this [...] Site Stats
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The Hidden Joys of Homeschooling
Whenever adults ask my children where they go to school and they answer “We’re homeschooled”, their second reaction (shortly after “That’s great!”) too often is to say “I couldn’t do that, be with my kids all the time!” I never can understand that. Silently, I always wonder “Then why did you bother [...]