Update: More tests. An upper GI where she gets to do a barium swallow and have her small intestine X-rayed along with a DEXA (bone density scan) and another blood draw to determine whether or not she has an enzyme to process one of the medications the doctor is looking at prescribing that is [...]
Update: my brave little girl is currently drinking that disgusting stuff. Her facial expressions say enough, but she is willing herself through it. What a girl. Also, comments are working again! And my site is updated and working! Yeah!
The “Big Day” is finally almost here. And today is the day my [...]
I have been trying to contemplate this entry since I read it Thursday night: I’m so over homeschooling.
But may I ask why you feel the need to take the overachiever angle? Don’t you think you might be raising expectations a bit high as you step on our heads to reach the summit? Do you [...]
Via Doc’s Sunrise Rants, I found Jack Lessenberry’s essay on Homeschooling. She does a rather good job of refuting just about everything he says, but I couldn’t help but focus on one part of the essay which seemed out of place.
Hillsdale College is about as conservative a liberal arts school as exists on the [...]
The St. Augustine Record recently published a wonderful article highlighting all that is wrong with the way “authorities” think about homeschooling (all block quotes are from the article).
“Abuse is a huge question in our office. We can’t get a handle on it,” said [home education coordinator Robert Schiavone].
That would be the home education coordinator [...]
Christine, aka The Thinking Mother made a good point on my post looking at how our virtual lives affect our personal lives.
Discussing the affect on children and teens doing role playing games or regular video games is very different than discussing adults who were socialized before the big video game craze and before the Internet [...]
Running the carnival this weeks seems to have zapped me of all extra energy. Of course, losing the internet connection at the start of last week did not help. It pretty much forced me to sort and incorporate all 60 or so entries in a relatively short time. (Like the night before…am [...]
Welcome to the 121st edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling which has grown a great deal since I first heard of it while I was still blogging over at HSB. It is even beginning to attract its own spam, the first mark of recognition in the blogging world. This week’s carnival is inspired [...]
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