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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Book Review: Make Your Worrier a Warrior
Make Your Worrier a Warrior is a useful addition to any parenting library. With his emphasis on practical solutions that any family can implement, author Daniel Peters offers families help with common problems that can cripple their children’s chance at success in whatever they want to pursue.
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Rethinking the education problem
Judging from the mainstream education news you read, the US is in big trouble. Our students are falling behind. Little countries like Finland and Singapore are going to take over the world with their fantastically well-educated populations. Our public schools are so broken, we should pay corporations and churches to educate our youth instead. If…
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Homeschooling Mom’s Bill of Rights
First, my disclaimer: There are some fathers who are the primary homeschooling parent, but this piece specifically addresses a “mom thing.” As women, many of us have been socialized to feel that it’s our job to take care of everyone else to the detriment of our own health and happiness. Homeschooling dads, please feel free…
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On finding and forgetting
When my children can’t find something of theirs, I always remind them of my method: “If you always put it away in the same place, you’ll always know where to find it.” Given that I tend to be forgetful, this is a rule I live by. If I set down my keys on my desk…
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Not another damsel in distress
Sometime in the last year I clicked on a link from Facebook about a woman who was being harassed because she planned to make a series of videos looking at sexist attitudes perpetuated by video games. Even before she’d made the videos—before she even said what was going to be in them—the Internet erupted against…