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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Eat the Pretty Food!
My older sister is much better about organic and natural than I am. I have to admit, when I’m faced with paying a huge amount of money for organic milk vs. being able to afford a cool new piece of jewelry? Hm. Gotta think long and hard about that one. Anyway, she sent me a…
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From Now Until It Isn’t
Is it a prerogative of youth that allows children to think that they can change the laws of the universe? Or are my children particularly stubborn? We all know that children don’t believe in physics. Each and every time they land on the ground, having fallen out of a tree or off a swingset, they…
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Modern Parenting Skills
My mother and I just bought the same type of camera. This was not planned. Little coincidences like these run through our lives in unpredictable little rivulets. My mother got hers yesterday, and I got mine today. So my mother has been sending me advice. First piece of advice: the strap is very hard to…
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Empire State Egg Drop
More on the visual-spacial learning style. I’m reading Visual-Spacial Learners by Alexandra Shires Golon. She gives a lot of pointers about how to identify the visual-spacial learner — one of the uses of the book is for classroom teachers to identify and help their visual spacial learners. VSLs, as a general category, are people who…
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Workbook Envy
A couple of days ago I attended the homeschooling support group at the Educational Resource Center. A couple of the moms there were talking about how they put together lesson plans for their kids in advance. One mom said she was concerned that perhaps she’d missed things in her son’s math education. I was agog.…