We’re going on a last visit to my parents’ before the new baby is born. There house was struck by lightning last week and various computer components were fried, leaving them with no internet access.
It will be like a field trip to the dark ages, huh?
Anyway, I won’t be around, probably until Monday. [...]
We had a recent discussion about how to “get it all done” as a wife, mother and teacher of your own children in an online forum. My instinctive response has always been, “You can’t. Prioritize, do what you can and learn to let the rest go. Most of our difficulties and stress [...]
A nice bit of encouragement for this weekend:
Whenever I feel very bad, I make sure to speak to home school mothers. These women represent something new. They are not feminists, a phrase they most often reject with scorn. Most live in very traditional households where the husband is the head of the family. However, they [...]
Several of the blogs I read have nice quotes in their sidebars about what some other blogger has said about them. Quotes from Glenn Reynolds seem popular for some reason. Probably because it is like having an autograph from the President or something. My husband had a nice suggestion for me that [...]
One of Education Sector’s eight recommendations for presidential candidates to tackle in the coming election is early childhood education. They propose $18.4 billion annually to bring No Child Left Behind to four year olds. It isn’t quite universal preschool, for they set the income limit at $50,000.
At what point in considering scientifically based [...]
March 27, 2007 – 12:50 pm
I have a great deal of respect for Valerie over at Home Education Magazine given that she is one of very few people in the discussion of homeschooling in Germany that has access to information beyond what is being reported by HSLDA, WND, LifeSite, etc. as well as personal experience with the culture.
In her recent [...]
March 27, 2007 – 12:17 pm
Wristcutters, a Love Story, a new film by After Dark Films, follows several characters who have killed themselves on a road trip through purgatory. According to After Dark Films co-owner Courtney Solomon, its message is that “love is better than suicide.” Given the company’s film making history, I am a little leery [...]
March 27, 2007 – 11:31 am
Alasandra has put together the Carnival of Homeschooling this week using Charles Darwin as a theme. I participated in a birding carnival awhile back which used the Voyage of the S.S. Beagle as a theme, something perhaps quite appropriate given his study of finches. Eeee. Those vampire finches have always disturbed me. [...]
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