Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

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  • Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives

    Avant! Welcome to my parenting blog archives

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    As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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…

  • News from the convention, Day 2

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    Following are my notes about the National Assn. for the Gifted Conference in Denver from this weekend. Click here for Day 1. My first workshop of the day was about asynchronous development and featured Linda Silverman (her list of accomplishments is long; the latest is a book called Giftedness 101 that is no doubt worth…

  • News from the convention, Day 1

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    I am at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) convention in Denver, CO, and it is NOT the evening of the first day of the convention. Yesterday evening I came back to my hotel room to write and I sat in panic in front of my smartphone: “I have way too much STUFF in…

  • Excellent opportunity to see a world uncovered

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    For my coastal California readers, I am posting a short piece about the trip my kids and I took with some friends to the beach yesterday. All this week, we’re having negative tides at very convenient times: Tue 3:56PM -1.4 Wed 4:44PM -1.7 Thr 5:33PM -1.7 Fri 6:25PM -1.4 A negative tide is when the…

  • The library: home away from home for homeschoolers

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    One of the indispensable parts of homeschooling is the public library. I have no idea whether people who make decisions at public libraries take us into account, but we are some of the heaviest users of this system of shared knowledge. No matter their political bent, one way to freak out a homeschooler is to…

  • Save California schools tomorrow

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    It may be too little, too late, but I feel compelled to write about a pressing issue in California that very few parents seem to understand: The funding of our schools. You may wonder: Why should I, a homeschooler, care about the public schools? First of all, my kids are both enrolled in a wonderful…