Comments on: Need some coffee? http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/ If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? --Psalm 11:3 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:22:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jennifer in OR http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980819 Jennifer in OR Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:28:37 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980819 I thought I heard somthing like "another one on the way" on your Home School Talk show! Woo-hoo, congrats to you & your family!! Cool home biz - I love entrepreneurs. And I love coffee. Perfect combination. I thought I heard somthing like “another one on the way” on your Home School Talk show! Woo-hoo, congrats to you & your family!!

Cool home biz - I love entrepreneurs. And I love coffee. Perfect combination.

]]> By: sprittibee http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980746 sprittibee Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:50:42 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980746 That's so cool. Yeah, I was all bummed out this year that we didn't get enough of my "plans" done. Then I realized ever so slowly with my square peg public school brain that taking a cross country field trip to Michigan to compete in a Robotics tournament and planting and raising vegetables in a garden outside is actually learning life-skills. Wow. It was like an epiphany. I CAN live outside the box. So I guess my year hasn't been so bad after all - even for all its distractions. That’s so cool. Yeah, I was all bummed out this year that we didn’t get enough of my “plans” done. Then I realized ever so slowly with my square peg public school brain that taking a cross country field trip to Michigan to compete in a Robotics tournament and planting and raising vegetables in a garden outside is actually learning life-skills. Wow. It was like an epiphany. I CAN live outside the box.

So I guess my year hasn’t been so bad after all - even for all its distractions.

]]> By: Summer http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980721 Summer Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:53:29 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980721 Oh wow, that looks like a great idea. Thanks for the link to it! Oh wow, that looks like a great idea. Thanks for the link to it!

]]> By: Spunky http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980705 Spunky Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:50:57 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980705 Congratulations! Congratulations!

]]> By: PeregrinJoe http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980704 PeregrinJoe Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:36:48 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980704 I love it! My wife and I have several ideas for some home school curriculum. This is inspiring. Thanks! I love it! My wife and I have several ideas for some home school curriculum. This is inspiring. Thanks!

]]> By: CircleReader http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980696 CircleReader Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:50:31 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980696 Extremely cool! Yes, I think teachers often struggle with making their educational content "authentic" and "relevant." Homeschoolers solve the problem from the other end, constantly looking for "educational" possibilities in real life as they themselves live it. I think it is a problem that needs to be solved from both ends, with specialists reaching out from their disciplines and real-life learners reaching in. We will definitely check out the curriculum! I've been roasting my own green cofee beans from <a href="http://www.burmancoffee.com/whoweare/" rel="nofollow">Burman Coffee Traders</a> (using a hot-air popper from a resale shop), and it has been a wonderful thing for me as a dad to share with the kids. We make coffee together in the morning (they haven't become addicted, yet), and I use the roasting process to show them what "chaff" means in Psalm 1, <em>etc.</em> The business curriculum is just one possibility for learning--there is so much rich content to engage with in the history, biology, and business of coffee. (One home-roasting supply company calls itself a "<a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/" rel="nofollow">virtual coffee university</a>.") And congrats on the new little one! Extremely cool! Yes, I think teachers often struggle with making their educational content “authentic” and “relevant.” Homeschoolers solve the problem from the other end, constantly looking for “educational” possibilities in real life as they themselves live it.

I think it is a problem that needs to be solved from both ends, with specialists reaching out from their disciplines and real-life learners reaching in.

We will definitely check out the curriculum! I’ve been roasting my own green cofee beans from Burman Coffee Traders (using a hot-air popper from a resale shop), and it has been a wonderful thing for me as a dad to share with the kids. We make coffee together in the morning (they haven’t become addicted, yet), and I use the roasting process to show them what “chaff” means in Psalm 1, etc. The business curriculum is just one possibility for learning–there is so much rich content to engage with in the history, biology, and business of coffee. (One home-roasting supply company calls itself a “virtual coffee university.”)

And congrats on the new little one!

]]> By: Life On The Planet http://principleddiscovery.com/2008/07/22/need-some-coffee/#comment-980685 Life On The Planet Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:41:24 +0000 http://principleddiscovery.com/?p=1028#comment-980685 Yea! A new baby to spoil! Okay, now I can finish reading your post! Yea! A new baby to spoil!

Okay, now I can finish reading your post!

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