Meredith has been really interested in dinosaurs lately. We’re going to Calgary at the end of the summer for my sister’s wedding, and so we thought we’d go to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller while we’re there. Looking around the site at all the cool programs and camps they have really got me thinking about [...]
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I can’t remember if I posted this, but a little while ago Meredith became very interested in the ABC games on the Starfall website. Just through playing those, she started to learn letters and could recognize some letters when we saw them in other situations. For Christmas, she had got some alphabet cards which I had [...] I had wanted to keep up with the weekly Unplugged projects, but through the summer we spent a lot of time outdoors and it fell to the wayside. This last week Meredith wasn’t feeling well and had no interest in going outside, getting dressed, or really doing much besides cuddling on the couch. In my search [...] We found a wasp nest in the forest last week. I think it is a paper wasp nest. I’ve put it in the bathroom over the heater for now to dry out. Eventually once Meredith’s room is done I’d like to make a shelf in there to put things like that on. When we have our [...] Meredith was loving A Bug’s Life for a while, so a few weeks ago Kris drew her an anthill covered in ants. Then a few days ago she wanted ants drawn again, and of course he complied. Today she was sitting drawing while I was doing other things, and afterwards brought it to me and told [...] My sister-in-law pointed me to a great blog post today that was written by a kid who was unschooled his whole life, and then decided to try going to school. I really love reading experiences from unschooled kids so I thought I would share it. I found the comments about socialization interesting since often that is [...] Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. I read somewhere once that children are redirected or told no on average every nine seconds. Now, I have no idea how this stat came to be, because how would you study [...] First, Sarah reminded me again about this video and website, Where the hell is Matt?. His videos are a lot of fun. I guarantee they will make you smile. The addendum is about my chores post. Reading it over, I wanted to clarify something. I briefly mentioned that I don’t agree with all the Radical Unschooling concepts but [...] There seem to be as many ways to try and make or coerce a child into doing chores as there are parents out there. My whole parenting style tries to avoid making or coercing my child into doing anything, and Kris and I have had discussions about chores and cleaning since before I was even pregnant. [...] |
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