Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Tag: education

  • Loving and loss

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    I had a dream: My family was in Paris. We were on our way to see a friend, who’d rented an apartment there on Forest Ave. (As it goes in dreams, all the street names were borrowed from Palo Alto!) My family and I were going there, but somehow we got separated and I was…

  • Hitting the sweet spot at the science fair

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    It’s tempting to see two parenting extremes at the science fair: the slacker parents and the helicopter parents. But the truth is that many parents are trying to hit the sweet spot in between, supporting our children while letting them set their own goals and make their own mistakes.

  • Decelerated Reader

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    This morning at breakfast my daughter sadly eyed the book I’d gotten her for Chanukah, Alice in Quantumland. This is the sort of nerdy, unusual book I love to buy—once we’re done with it we’ll donate it to our library and hopefully they’ll make it available to other nerdy unusual kids in our community. But why…

  • Separating individuals from the crowd

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    There is very little understanding out in the wider community of families that those of us with kids like this just got the kids we got. It’s not our fault, nor can we take credit for it. And just as parents of developmentally disabled kids got a package that they need to accept whole and…

  • The way we do it

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    Until recently, pretty much every mention I found of homeschooling in the mainstream press looked nothing like what we do at our house. Or nothing like people I know do at their houses. And definitely not like what the homeschoolers I know do when they’re out of the house, which is in general a significant…