Category: Homeschooling
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Inspiration: a New Stapler
Yesterday my daughter and I went to Staples and bought…a new stapler. It felt a little self-referential. Anyway, she chose it (it’s pink, you might have guessed), but didn’t seem all that excited about it. Our other stapler, the one I must have brought to college with me, died. So it was time. When we…
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Nurturing the Crazy Creative Soul
The kids I have known well…myself, my siblings, and my kids…are wildly, weirdly creative. Though I am a creative person, I also have the soul of the scientist. Whenever anyway says, “This is the way it is,” I think, “Who says so? How did they test that hypothesis?” Today my daughter and I were having…
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It’s Educational!
I can’t remember when I heard about the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. I’ve been on their mailing list for a number of years, and they are consistently measured and serious in their dedication to pointing out how our children’s lives have been commercialized. As far as I’ve noticed, they don’t make up overblown campaigns…
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A Homeschooling Sort of Day
Another homeschooling mom gave me great me advice about what to do when homeschooling isn’t going well. She spent weeks just taking her child on long walks. It’s amazing how much education can happen on a walk! The thing about homeschooling that’s particularly difficult for me, and I’m guessing for a lot of parents out…
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Love Her and Let Her Go
I received some pearls of wisdom the other day about discipline from a tattooed great-grandmother who works at my daughter’s homeschool program. My wise woman told me that she never had preschoolers in her care give her trouble about walking in a line on sidewalks. When I expressed my doubt that she’d be able to…