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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Health: a matter of faith or investigation?
A friend sent me a link to a blog that had a good refutation of some of the major anti-vaccination arguments. In reading it, more ideas occurred to me about how people make health decisions based on misunderstandings of the scientific data. So far on this subject I wrote about argumentation techniques, and how many…
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Household economies
I have two major strikes against my ability to make money: First, the career path that called to me was writer and teacher. Neither has ever paid my way in life. The second is having chosen to homeschool my daughter. There are people who make a good income while homeschooling, but almost all of them…
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Consuming creativity
The other day I wrote about “media values” — making sure that the media you allow your children to use reflects your family’s values. That made me think more in-depth about one value that my husband and I share that is probably deeper than almost anything else: we want our kids to be creators, not…
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What are your media values?
Last night I had yet another enlightening, funny, and educational time sitting around chatting with a bunch of homeschooling moms. One of the moms asked the question, “Do you limit your children’s time on the computer?” and the most interesting discussion ensued. I said that I was happy that my son likes to program when…
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Portrait of a happy girl
Today I met with my publisher at SantaCruzParent.com. We talked about lots of things, especially social networks like Facebook and Twitter, which I had avoided, but I am now taking part in, reluctantly, sometimes enjoying them. (Want to receive my notifications on Facebook? See “fan me on facebook”: below, right side.) And then Parmalee asked…