I’m famous!

Okay, I’m not really. But I was interviewed for The Homeschool Co-op site. I’m really feeling like I want to start blogging more again. There is so much stuff I want to write down and remember and blog about and I don’t. I’m going to try to blog at least once a [...]

More on TV and life learning

One year old Meredith

I wrote my post on TV watching late at night when I should have been sleeping. It’s late again and I should probably be in bed again, but I had a small tangent I wanted to make.

In that post, I stated that Kris and I are both the type of people that [...]

TV, ADHD, and other random thoughts

Vegging

Meredith has been watching a lot of TV lately. I’m not someone who sees no value in TV and believes it should be banned from the house altogether, but I also don’t think it can replace physical play, outdoor exploration, and spending time with family. We don’t have cable, but we recently signed up [...]

Fun with white boards

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“Look Mama, I spelled Mimi!”

I don’t make a point of correcting her, but she then asked me to spell Mimi, so I wrote it too. She examined mine carefully, and then wrote it again herself:

The two first arcs are the M.

Then she drew a banana:

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Homeschool Math

Meredith and Fiona

Math seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people who are just starting unschooling, or against it altogether, so I thought I’d share this story that happened last night.

Meredith and I were walking into the grocery store together, and I asked her if she wanted a treat. She told me [...]

Lately

Driveway

Well, we have a conditional offer accepted on that property, which means I’ve been busy. Busier than I’d anticipated: setting up inspections, talking to our banker, arranging things with our realtor… It’s nice to be busy though, it keeps me from being terrified about this huge amount of money.

September Favourites

Napping together after a long night

I used to read another blog that did something similar to this every month or so, though I don’t remember whose it was. Every month there are always posts someone else writes that are particularly funny or thoughtful or that just say something that I could say in better words than I ever would. [...]

Mummified Apple Project

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Over the weekend, Meredith suddenly very excitedly started chattering about her “mama apple” and wanting to see it. It took me a minute to realize she meant our mummified apple project. It had been less than a week so I wasn’t confident anything would have happened, but I didn’t want to dampen her [...]

Not-Back-To-School Picnic

Beautiful sunny beach

We’re lucky to live in a city with a huge homeschooling network, many of whom are also unschoolers. This year we joined the network, and I’m really enjoying the communication with other homeschoolers through the various e-mail lists and websites. Already I have a lot of ideas through them, and I can see how [...]

Preschool Project: Mummies and Mummified Apples

Two apple quarters

While Meredith wasn’t terribly interested in most of the Ancient Egypt books I got, she loved the Eyewitness Mummy one. We found a cool game online, Discovery Kids Mummy Maker, that she has had a blast with. Her and I played the game together the first couple of times, [...]

“It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.”
~ Michael Dell

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