Category: Parenting
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The big switcheroo
As longtime readers of this blog know, I live a double life. Days I’m a homeschooling mom with my seven-year-old daughter. Nights and weekends I get my eleven-year-old son back from school and I’m a schooling mom, asking what happened today in that mysterious, far-away land called “school.” It’s a weird sort of existence, sort…
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Read and support our libraries!
Santa Cruz Public Library’s Summer Reading Program is back up and running again this year. Part of the way that the library gets funding for this is by proving active interest in it, i.e. kids signing up and doing it! Signing up is easy: Either go to your branch or to the library website, and…
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This is your life, kids.
Do your children love each other totally and unconditionally? Do they support and love each other through thick and thin? Go away. My children fight. My children can fight about anything. My children will fight about anything. Really. The least consequential thing they ever fought about, well, I can’t even remember it. It was that…
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Happy summer!
Are you exhausted yet? I am always exhausted at this time of year. Not only are my two children always at two different schools, both of which I want to commit to totally and both of which I need to neglect in different amounts, but both of my children play instruments, and thus have recitals,…
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What inspiration looks like
We took our yearly pilgrimage to the Maker Faire on Sunday. Ever since we discovered this event’s magical properties, it’s been a regular on our calendar. Yes, there were disappointments. We searched in vain for our favorite place — the room full of overstocks, rejects, and just plain junk where you could put together whatever…