Mind over body
We have a mean flu bug working its way through the house. It hit my 6 year old pretty hard today. He’s been running a fever and this afternoon, he fell asleep for a couple of hours on the couch. When he woke up, his temperature was about 102. I asked him how he felt. He looked up at me with his flushed face and … Continue reading Mind over body
This week’s carnival of Homeschooling is up!
Week 16 of the Carnival of Homeschooling is up over at about homeschooling. If you haven’t seen a carnival before, be sure to head on over. It’s a sampling of what homeschoolers on the blogosphere are talking about and can be a great way to find new, interesting blogs. My post “My kitchen table’s under-used (and I think I’m OK with that)” is included in … Continue reading This week’s carnival of Homeschooling is up!
What if they learn without doing the worksheets?
Over at the new blog “Robin’s Blue Skies”, there is a wonderful post about how kids learn in the real world vs. workbook learning. I know people who are “school at home types” and I know that some of them think the idea of not having the kids sit down to do their school work for several hours every day seems crazy. However, if my … Continue reading What if they learn without doing the worksheets?
For Good Friday and Easter
Yesterday on beliefnet.com, the blogger Chattering Mind asks if we need to/should accept Jesus’ literal resurrection as fact. She seems inclined to the Borg train of thought in which one makes up something more suitable, albeit without any supporting evidence besides one’s own conjurings like Jesus being alive in our hearts, rather than physically alive. I was going to leave a comment, but I couldn’t … Continue reading For Good Friday and Easter
In honor of the protests over illegal immigration . . .
Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel tonight examined the myth of a gigantic slingshot used to fling people through the air and across the border. There’s one way to cross! Of course they’re too nice/smart to get too embroiled, so the imaginary border they created to test their gigantic slingshot was the US Canadian border. But not too nice, and definately smart enough to put the … Continue reading In honor of the protests over illegal immigration . . .
Help needed: building a website
My 10 year old wants to make a website about dragons and I need help in getting him started. I’m afraid I just don’t even know how to start this and would appreciate any resources/instructions you might be able to offer. Mostly, I’d like him to be able to work on this pretty independantly. Like I said, I haven’t the foggiest notion of how to … Continue reading Help needed: building a website
My brain is going to explode
A few minutes ago, I sat down to read an article on slate.com criticizing some column David Brooks wrote about the Duke lacrosse team scandal (don’t really care about it, but the headline writers at slate are so good, they make you want to see what an article’s about). Apparently David Brooks had been complaining about the race/class lens being used to look at the … Continue reading My brain is going to explode
15th Annual Canival Of Homeschooling
This week’s Canival of Homeschooling is up over at Tami’s Blog. For those of you who may not be familiar, the Carnival is a weekly round-up of what homeschooler’s are blogging about. It can be a good way to find out about what homeschoolers in the blogosphere are doing and thinking as well as a good way to find blogs which might interest you. I … Continue reading 15th Annual Canival Of Homeschooling
I wonder if spinning so hard makes them dizzy
We’ve heard a lot lately about boy’s lack of success in our education system. However, in today’s Washington Post, writers Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Chait Barnett say, “hey, don’t worry – the boys are fine.” According to them, we shouldn’t worry because the only boys who aren’t doing well are the poor, minority, rural and urban boys. The boys who really matter, you know, white … Continue reading I wonder if spinning so hard makes them dizzy
Homeschool Prom
Here’s a nice little article about a homeschool prom held outside Chicago. I loved this: “I don’t know how these people learned this,” the Elmhurst teen said, motioning toward a huddle of other students bouncing to the beats of a Ciara CD. Freshman Michael Naskrent, a home-schooler whose dervish-like twirls set his loosened necktie flapping, later whispered his secret to looking so good his first … Continue reading Homeschool Prom
The Upside Down World 