Comments on: Instilling mindfulness in our homeschool

By: solar systems power

solar systems power — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:27:20 +0000

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By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:57:08 +0000

Yes. Simpler living for a richer life.

By: Renae

Renae — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:53:07 +0000

Shawna,
I really appreciate what you wrote about your standards being simpler, not less just simpler. There is such freedom in that statement!

By: Wilma Ham

Wilma Ham — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:27:33 +0000

If we would not have laborers who would build our houses, for our people with degrees and two left hands?
Judgments are weird things and to be watched as they are showing children how not logic our thinking is! They are watching and thinking and taking on the good and the bad.
It is a good reminder to be mindful of all we do.

By: Shawna

Shawna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:33:38 +0000

Interesting.

My husband is that laborer (literally a laborer in the Laborer’s Union,) and what a darn good living he has made at it. And me? I am the one with the college degree who decide to stay at home with her kids. Boy, I have never heard the end of that one. But that laborer’s salary allows me to do just that in a state that usually requires two incomes just to get by. But our standards are simpler, not less just simpler.

Yes, that mindfulness is some of what moved us in this direction. But mainly it was because it was a natural inclination on both our parts. And just the other night our youngest decide to write a short story Just-Because… and he was so proud of his story that he took it to school for his teacher, whom didn’t have the time to read it but would get to it later. Luckily, this did not discourage him as he had written the story for himself

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:06 +0000

I like just watching our chickens. And bug loves her egg collection chore!

By: Renae

Renae — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:14:02 +0000

Good thoughts for my little brain to wrangle with this morning!

Getting our house ready to live in created a lot of working together. But as we settled in I see some of that evaporating. Not that we all have to work together all the time, but our goals have become less defined.

Maybe the chickens will become a reality…I know that my son would enjoy planning and building the coop.

By: momshare.net

momshare.net — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:13 +0000

Principled Discovery » Instilling mindfulness in our homeschool…

Yet there is satisfaction in just watching a gate open and close, a gate you built, a gate that stands as a visual reminder of a need met, a challenge overcome, a goal accomplished….