Homeschooling in the Forest
We’re all familiar with the saying, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” What I’m wondering, is how many other homeschooling families…
Category: The Women Folk
Because it’s different . . . and that’s NOT (always) bad!
First of all, I need to address a fact that most of us are familiar with. Kids are amazing!! Plain and simple. Their seemingly endless capacity to adapt to any and every new circumstance never…
Day 1 down . . . 179 to go!
Day 1 is down. I’m trying to take it all in stride – especially the part where I asked my young students what their favorite part of the day was. Two of them answered with…
It’s all about the clothes, anyway!
So the night before our “back-to-school” day, there were some discussions about what outfits the kids would choose for their first day. Everyone knows that school itself is irrelevant, because the outfit is what matters…
What I’ve been doing this summer . . .
Are we there yet? The dog days of summer have arrived and set up camp here in the deep south. It’s hot. Really hot. And at least in this house, it’s making us all a…
Homeschooling 101 – unless there’s a 99 level class instead?
I have decided that homeschooling is like childbirth. If anyone could accurately describe the path a mother will take to bring these precious bundles of joy into the world, I wonder how many of us…
Language Lessons
Recently the girls were lamenting the fact that they could not stay and watch a movie at a swim club party. “Mom, why can’t we stay and watch?” “Well, there’s just some language in the…
US History – small boy edition
Yesterday the kids were apparently acting out some mutated version of what Hanna has been learning about in US History. Working in the kitchen, I tried to listen in but all I could discern was…
Questions, questions
5 minutes. 3 kids. Infinite question possibilities. Take for example the following questions, asked by the redhead. The format was: 1.) Ask question. 2.) Pause ever so briefly for the answer. When the answer is…
Career Day just doesn’t get any better than this. . .
“Dad, do you know what I want to be when I grow up?” the red-headed girl asked me during the pool-side chat. “What’s that dear?” “A vulcanologist!” she replied. “You want to study volcanoes?” I…