Avant Parenting Archives
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Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives
As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated. However, there’s lots of good stuff here, much of it as true now as when it was written. Please feel free to browse, or follow these links: One last piece of parenting advice: Enjoy today even if it’s a rough…
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Suki, Self-publisher
Hanna, Homeschooler is a book I wrote so that my daughter could see herself in fiction. Find it now on Amazon.com and BN.com.
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The [supposed] failure of online education
The core of the problem—I’ll just jump right into it here—is that anyone in this country thinks that education can be summed up in numbers. It can’t. Education is about people, and people are all different. Each unique. We may make schools to function as assembly lines, but we human beings continue to refuse to…
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On not living the fearful life
Really bad things happen out there in the big world, bad things that people bring about. If you read even the oldest texts that humans have passed down, we know that bad things have happened as long as stories have been told. And if you look at the forensic evidence that archaeologists present, you know…
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Risk-taking and lifelong learning
If we adults make an effort to keep striving for new and challenging experiences in our lives, it makes us better teachers and parents. My students, I try to keep in mind, do the equivalent of getting up in front of a jazz band nearly every day of their lives. They are always facing something…