Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
My children are grown, my interests have moved on, so this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or click the headline above to access quick links to my favorite topics. One last piece of…
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Woman types into blog software. And the next thing that happens is mind-boggling.
Woman Implores Readers To Stop Reading. And What Happens Next Is Really Not Very Important At All.
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Are we doing better? A mom, a daughter, and a small press.
I went to a reading the other night at Bookshop Santa Cruz. It was the most fabulously successful reading I’ve seen there, literally standing room only. But it wasn’t Jonathan Franzen or Suzanne Collins that pulled them in. It was a mom, a daughter, and a little independent press.
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8 Essential Homeschooling Ingredients
Here in no particular order are the ingredients that made our homeschooling recipe sweet, spicy, comforting, complex, and zesty!
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Approaching formal writing
Not every student is going to be an inspired, enthusiastic writer. But every student who can learn to communicate effectively can learn to do it in textual form. Our biggest job as homeschooling parents is not to make them hate it before they even start to learn.
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Healthy writing habits for children
I have homeschooled two kids, one of them a natural writer, the other reluctant. I also teach kids writing at Athena’s Advanced Academy, and my students come in all flavors. Starting with my own kids, and now even more with my online students, I have rejected the traditional approach to teaching writing.