I noticed a somewhat inflammatory statement come up on an e-mail list I read recently, and the responding posts made it clear that the e-mail had hit on something brewing in the homeschool community. The sender of the first post made a comment to a newbie homeschooler that they can join a public homeschool program…

It’s the one thing homeschoolers don’t want to hear their kids say: “Mom, I want to start going to a regular school.” My daughter has been punctuating our conversations with this sentiment for the last few days. She’s only six, and it’s been well over a year since she’s had to spend a full week…

When our daughter was born, she was born too fast. I know, most moms worry about the types that are born too slow! Our son was like that. He wasn’t quite sure he was ready to face the world yet, and so we waited, and waited… Our daughter, on the other hand, hardly made it…

I have a friend who has learned a lot about nutrition and how it affects health. I have been conversing with her because I am chasing down yet another connection between diet and health. (See previous postings [1 2 3] about the articles I wrote on this for Growing Up in Santa Cruz [article 1,…

The other morning I woke up with the realization that I’d been having a stress dream about laundry. Is there really anything more pathetic to have a dream about? I mean, if I’m going to have stress dreams, I’d like to have, let’s see, one about going to Iraq and getting everyone to get along,…