When I first started into homeschooling, and especially as I began following various homeschooling blogs and Facebook pages, I was pretty amused at the things I found were controversial in the homeschooling community. I once got wrapped up in a pretty heated discussion about whether or … [Read more...]
Do-It-Yourself Book Snowballs
While I'm trying very hard to acclimate myself to the world of e-books, there are few things I find warmer and lovelier than an old-fashioned hard-copy book. I love the look. I love the feel. I even love the smell! And the more the pages yellow and become dog-eared, both … [Read more...]
Disciplining MOM with the Rubber Band Method
So you may have read the post by Jackie Masek at LJSkool about disciplining children via the rubber band method. And just to head off any misunderstanding here if you haven't read it: We're not talking about snapping little kids' wrists with rubber bands when they misbehave. … [Read more...]
Encouraging Your Children Toward Good Books
Charlotte Mason called it "twaddle". And twaddle is a real word, though not one most people are familiar with, and certainly not one people, (at least those outside of the CM homeschooling community,) use very often. But Dictionary.com defines twaddle as, "trivial, feeble, silly, or … [Read more...]
6 Things that DON’T Make Me a Bad Mom
I'm pretty sure most of us would agree: You don't have to look very hard to find examples of bad parenting. But what I find frustrating sometimes is that often really, really bad parenting is overlooked or somehow excused provided there's some social or economic … [Read more...]
To the Kind Stranger Who Praised My Little Family
Dear Sir: I'm afraid I'm a little slow to say thank you, but that doesn't mean I haven't been incredibly grateful for your kind words from the day you spoke them! What a blessing you were to me, and to all of us! And what a blessing your words have been every time I've thought of them … [Read more...]
What Coupons Cost You
Maybe it's just me, but it sure seems like there's a lot more talk about coupons than there used to be. I listen to folks brag about their coupon deals and sometimes I'm left in utter disbelief, not necessarily at the size of their savings, but at the thought of them using coupons at all! … [Read more...]
The Road that Led to Homeschool: Where I Failed At Homeschooling
(I wasn't entirely new to homeschooling even when I wrote this, but I was still in wonder of the things that had brought me to that educational choice. Now about to start our 9th year of homeschooling, the 'wonder' is mostly gone, but I'm more delighted now than ever to have taken this … [Read more...]
The Road that Led To Homeschool: Four Reasons Why I Didn’t Want to Homeschool
(This one was originally part of a series that, when I wrote it, was more or less half personal diary and half 'homeschooling manifesto'. The things I wrote back then still ring true in my heart and mind today. And while my blog is still unassumingly small, it has … [Read more...]
The Road that Led to Homeschool: Why Public School Just Wasn’t an Option for Us
(This is an old post of mine written back in the days when I blogged because I needed a writing outlet, mostly just to clear my head from time to time. I decided to rename and share it again, first of all, because I'm taking a very temporary hiatus from blogging, but also … [Read more...]
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