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    As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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

  • Homeschooling – past and present

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    I was working on an article about “back to homeschooling” for Growing Up in Santa Cruz (read it!), and in the midst of corresponding with representatives of the wide range of local homeschoolers, I came across yet another incendiary piece on the web about how awful homeschooling is, how it’s damaging children, killing public education,…

  • Let's go to Antarctica!

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    Last night I attended a mysterious congregation in a parking lot after dark. Luckily, I had a flashlight on my keychain, and I knew the people I was meeting were not dangerous. They are scientists who study Antarctica, and  a local teacher who is going with them with a mission to teach us more about…

  • Talking about blogging

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    Sunday I gave a workshop about blogging to a bunch of homeschool parents at the HSC Conference. About half of the people in the room already had blogs; the other half were thinking about it. Some really interesting questions came up regarding what a blog is, why you would do it, who is it for……

  • Notes from the conference, day 2

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    This is my day off at the HSC Homeschooling Conference. Tomorrow I’ll be working again. But until then, I play… I got to hear an inspiring talk by Linda Dobson, who homeschooled back before there was the Internet, even. I have to say, when I think about trying to educate kids with a library card…

  • Report from the conference, day 1

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    One year ago, I had a terribly disappointing experience. I had proposed a few workshops at the HSC Homeschooling Conference in Sacramento, and the one they accepted was a writing workshop for teens. This was going way back into my past as a college English teacher, and I was looking forward to it. I frankly…