Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Parenting

  • Family Seeks Campatible Family

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    I have this idyllic vision of one part of my childhood that I’m hesitant to give up. The way I remember it, my family had a good number of something I’ve been searching for: compatible families. These are the families where the women get along, the men get along (assuming there are men involved), and…

  • Arachnid Gladiators

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    So the other day I went into our hall bathroom and there was a spider in the sink. This isn’t uncommon in a house shaded by redwoods, and even less uncommon in November. It’s the month at all the local spiders seem to come to visit. In years past, I would have washed it down…

  • The Reluctant Homeschooler

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    It seems to me that families who homeschool can be defined by type. There is, of course, some overlap, and always those pesky exceptions. But for the most part, homeschoolers come in three flavors: religious, alternative, and last resort… The religious homeschoolers are the best-known by non-homeschoolers. Most of them are Christian, most but not…

  • America’s Frontier

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    We’re reading the entire “Little House” series to our six-year-old, who has adopted them like religion. Each time we finish a book, we ask, “Do you want to go on with the series or take a break?” Our son took a break sometime after the third move by the family, but our daughter is pushing…

  • A Space of One’s Own

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    Forget Virginia Woolf’s room of one’s own — I’d just like to have a little sacred space. The problem is, the kids like me too much! I think I must have failed as a parent somehow that my sacred space doesn’t terrify them… Just joking, of course, but I’ve been noticing that my half of…