Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Parenting

  • Facebook thinks I speak Spanish, and other musings about modern life

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    Hola… For months now I have been getting e-mails from Facebook, recommending I add as friends people I have never met. People whose first language is Spanish. People who don’t even live in the same country as me. OK, I speak passable caveman Spanish. I can read and understand, but when I go to speak,…

  • A life photographed

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    In 2002, my husband and I got our first digital camera. After my activity of the last couple of weeks, I am looking at our lives before that year as an enormous slog through boxes of faded memories. My mother and I hatched a plan a few months ago to scan all of our family…

  • How we read now

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    My family is filled with big readers. Back when we were childless, my husband and I actually had a category in our Quicken account called “books.” The first time he quit his job to start a company and we were trimming expenses, that was one we targeted. Then we became huge consumers of the public…

  • Books featuring homeschoolers

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    Like other kids, homeschoolers can be inspired by seeing themselves in fiction. The problem is that many of the depictions of homeschoolers in mainstream fiction depend on misinformation and depict homeschoolers as two-dimensional. The books on this list all show more well-rounded depictions of homeschool life.

  • Book list for pre-teen gifted readers

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    Pre-teen gifted readers often run into a problem around the age of ten: as younger children they read everything in children’s literature that they could get their hands on. By the time they reach ten years old, they’re starting to run into roadblocks when looking for appropriate books. Some ten-year-olds are ready to go on…