Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Parenting

  • From the archives: Nine pet parenting peeves

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    I have been cleaning out the files on my computer and found this piece that I wrote when my daughter was in preschool…. she’s nine now. So it’s old news, but what’s amazing is how fresh it is. I still agree with all of it! I think I stopped writing because I’d called the piece…

  • On Moral Fiction

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    I have a book, pages yellowed and stiff as if I’d been born much earlier than I was actually born, that my brother gave me when I graduated from college. He inscribed the front page, which is why I know when he gave it to me. Otherwise, I’d have to depend on my memory, which…

  • My yearly lecture: cover up!

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    OK, it’s official. Although the equinox is not happening for some time yet, it’s summer in California. We even had a lovely, sunny day on Memorial Day! Knowing that the rest of California would be on our beach, dropping their garbage, smoking their cigarettes, and running into each other with their boogie boards, we chose…

  • Abyss, the darkling beetle

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    One of the cool things about homeschooling is that you can incorporate your life into your learning… and your learning into your life. This is a case of the first instance. My nine-year-old daughter insisted on picking up a large black beetle when we were hiking at Pogonip and bringing it back with us. She…

  • Daddy’s little genius

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    There has been a small rash of these news stories recently: Kid gets extremely high score on IQ test, applies and gets into Mensa. Parents rush to news outlets to make sure Precious Petunia gets her 15 minutes of fame. I shouldn’t be so mean, but it really makes me feel mean. These aren’t 15-year-old…