Category: Education
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Our approach to Internet safety
I think that overall taking part in creative communities and finding people to share interests online is an extremely positive experience for most kids. That said, in our family we use our values and experience to try to create a balance in our online lives.
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The great hunt
Each year my family awaits the December holidays for a number of reasons. One of the major ones involves tramping around hillsides like this one: Searching the forest floor, which looks like this: for a certain sort of gold, otherwise known as chanterelles. Here are a few that we found today: They don’t look like…
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Movie Review: Everything would be fine if you just got over that homeschooling thing….
So much for hoping for a good homeschooling movie. I don’t think a movie has ever gone so wrong in the last few short minutes than this one did. The ending of this movie seems more intent on sticking it to anyone who has ever tried to live up to their ideals than on faithfully…
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Looking past the thorns
I know a lot of parents with younger children who cause themselves undue stress worrying about college. Today, I’m here to give you a little taste of how you can also enjoy it. It’s important to remember: When you’re looking at a rose, you don’t have to spend all the time focusing on the thorns.
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Brain-Based Learning for Homeschoolers
In the time that I’ve been homeschooling, major progress has been made by scientists studying how we think and learn. Mainstream American education has hardly reacted to the new data that is coming out daily, still attempting to force children to learn in a way that never really suited anyone, though we all suffered through…