Category: Homeschooling
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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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The reluctant pied piper of homeschooling
I read all these well-reasoned articles about how parents pulling the highest achieving students to homeschool them or put them into private schools is hurting our public schools. The theory is, we should sacrifice our children to the greater good and leave them there. We should work with the system rather than opting out. But…
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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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More on math
My friend Heddi (visit her blog, Hands-on Learning) objected a bit to my blog yesterday. I will point out a couple of things. First of all, the piece that I cited is not, in fact, an article in Psychology Today, nor is it based on research. Heddi pointed out to me that his blog entries…
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All the math she needs
I saw links to this Psychology Today piece all over the place today. Actually, I haven’t gotten yet to the digests of my e-mail lists, but I bet it’s there, too. The piece is called “Kids Learn Math Easily When They Control Their Own Learning,” and it’s all about things that I know: Kids who…