This approach is something every parent can do. I’ll never forget the day my mom stopped helping me with my homework. It’s a lesson that has stayed with me my whole life. My mother was one of the most natural teachers I’ve ever met. Never the kind of person to […]
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7 Quick Takes – So much to say
Little bits from around the web that I thought worth sharing. I wanted to include pictures but my internet out here in the Thailand boonies is so slow tonight that’s it’s not going to happen. 1. Modesty, I Don’t Think it Means What You Think it Means Probably everyone has […]
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Our peach trees have that leaf curl disease that will eventually kill them if it goes untreated. We didn’t strip all the leaves last fall and spray it and it shows. Tons of little tiny peaches that drop before they are ripe and are rotten from the inside out. But […]
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He turns around to face me in the grocery store and exclaims loudly. “I look a lot different from everyone else in this store I bet. More like someone European from a long time ago I guess.” He is undisguisedly gleeful about this fact. He has no desire to fit […]
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“Mommy, when de baby is weady to be borned will it cwawl out of you?” I’m tucking Little in for the night. “No honey, I will need to push it out, and it will come out between my legs like this.” I gesture appropriately. Her eyes get bigger, if that’s […]
Read More1000 Gifts-Week 34
Usually on these days I write a list of gifts small and large over the past week. Sometimes paragraphs tell the story best. This is one of those weeks. I take the smallest of steps toward God. Make time to pray. His response, so all out of proportion to my […]
Read MoreHome Schooling-How we do it. Part 3 schedule and routines
Be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 as well. In my heart I am an un-schooler. I would love for everything to be spontaneous, all learning child directed and based on burning interests. In my experience, total spontaneity leads to doing nothing all day. Boredom is good for […]
Read MoreHome Schooling-How we do it. Part 2 Curriculum
Yesterday I mentioned the curricula that we began with when we first started homeschooling. Please go and read for a better understanding of our philosophical approach to learning as well. This post isn’t a neat and tidy list, though I tried. It’s hard when what I’m trying to show is […]
Read MoreHome Schooling-How we do it.
Since it’s about time for another season of school, and I need to file another course of study with our home school administrator*, I figured I would write a few posts about how we home school. Every family does it differently btw. (One of the first home schooling books I […]
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