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As you can see by the dates below, this blog is no longer being updated.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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Enter the scowlers, start up the bad behavior
Visiting my kids’ grandma in Florida is a cultural experience. She lives in a mature adult community, as many in Florida do. The streets are orderly, and no one draws on the sidewalk. I find the range of reactions to kids here pretty interesting. There are the people who think that anyone younger than eighteen…
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Homeschool bootcamp
I was brought into homeschooling kicking and screaming. Well, actually, I tried not to do that in front of my daughter, as we were both dazed and confused after her unsuccessful quarter in kindergarten. But inwardly, there were lots of screams and self-directed kicks. I spent about two months trying to go it alone, feeling…
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I coulda tole you that for twenny bucks!
Yes, our schools are failing. But standardized tests were never the solution. We have made them the problem — luckily, an easy problem to get rid of.
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Alternatives to “college for everyone”
Last week I wrote about how I thought the question of why our colleges are turning out less-educated people was pretty self-evident: When we create a society in which everyone has to go to college to get a job, we have a lot of people in college who don’t actually want to be learning. But…
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Reactive hypoglycemia
PLEASE NOTE: This is a very old post. Comments are closed. Please do not message me to ask my advice—I haven’t done any further research on this subject and have no leads for you. I do know what you’re going through, though, and I know it’s rough. Hang in there! Some gifted children experience a…