Category: Parenting
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A few more gripes from the Home Engineer
If you’re not in the mood to be annoyed, Go Away. There, I’ve said it. Consider yourself forewarned. Do you hate stupid people as much as I do? First, let me define stupid people: They are those people who we need to deal with on a daily basis who see it as their function to…
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Make way for unbridled creativity!
It’s something like non-stop creativity at my house. My daughter has a spot in our breakfast room, on the floor, where she pulls out her wares: bits of cloth, paper of various colors and textures, glue, beads, string, egg cartons, boxes we threw in the recycling and hoped would stay there, needles and thread, a…
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Who are you calling a stay-at-home mom?
In the case of most homeschooling moms I know (no matter what religious bent), staying at home with the kids is as rigorous as getting a PhD, as demanding as running a corporation, as creatively fulfilling as being the artistic director of a small theater group. The big difference is that you get to decide…
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Trusting the Process… where failure is success
Homeschoolers like to comfort each other with the wisdom that kids do learn, no matter what we do. When a parent at a homeschool support group says that they’re concerned that they’re not doing a good enough job, more often than not at least one other parent in a group — probably all of the…
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Other people's children
I’ve been working on editing the video of my daughter’s school play. In editing the video, I have to go back and forth through small parts of it to find the places to cut, merge, add subtitles, etc. It’s painstaking work, and should be boring, but I find it enjoyable. It’s a sort of meditation.…