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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Cookies for cancer
I can’t do it better than Michelle, so I’m just passing on her note: Dear Friends, If you have spent any time on facebook over the past few months, you have no doubt seen me mention Prince Liam and the Mamas night out I am planning. For those who have not, here is a little…
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The Computer History Museum
I have been teaching a group of homeschoolers how to use the Alice programming environment. This is an environment created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon with young programming students in mind. Most of the kids using it are high school students, but the kids I’m teaching range from eight to twelve. If you want to…
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How do we get by? Homeschooling families talk about how to make ends meet
From the outside, homeschooling sometimes seems like a luxury to families who think they can’t afford to have one spouse “not working.” But homeschooling families say that no matter what their finances or their family structure, they find a way to make it work. Probably the commonest scenario is that the primary homeschooler has to…
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From scratch
Things are going a little overboard these days at my house. Something’s growing in my kitchen. No, we haven’t had an invasion of ants (though that has happened) or mold (ditto). It’s not that we’ve found a new unusual cuisine to pursue (though my husband is always on the lookout for that). I have started…
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Getting ready for life
My kids’ homeschool program is putting on their annual play this week. It’s a lot of work. One by one, kids and adults are melting down. At our house, we haven’t done much in the way of academics this week. I ask my daughter to do math and she says she needs to make a…