Category: Parenting
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Getting together with the tribe
As my daughter and I were preparing to attend our local homeschooling conference last weekend, she asked a very good question: “Why don’t school families have a fun conference to go to?” It was a little hard to answer. The immediate quip that came to mind—”because they’re boring?”—wasn’t fair to school parents, many of whom…
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Hurrah! for a well-earned week
In homeschooling circles, what I’m about to confess is something on a par with admitting that you are some sort of non-violent felon. Not as bad as a murderer, though perhaps I’d be put in a category with embezzling CEOs, crooked car mechanics, and guys that steal purses from old ladies. OK, deep breath, here…
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Book review: Searching for Meaning
Searching for Meaning: Idealism, Bright Minds, Disillusionment, and Hope by James T. Webb Great Potential Press Dr. Webb’s work has been very important in my life. The day I picked up A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children is the day that I started to learn about my children—and myself. This was the first parenting book…
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My homeschool prodigy
It’s hard to admit when you’re homeschooling a prodigy. You don’t want other parents to get jealous. But sometimes you just have to bust forth and let people know about your precious darling.
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Open Source Parenting
My mother remembers driving home from the hospital with my newborn older sister on her lap. She says that she and my dad looked at each other and just started laughing. “We asked, ‘So what do we do now?’,” she remembers. In the intervening years, a lot has changed. But the biggest changes have come…