Driving into Olathe earlier in the week, I was greeted by a large flashing highway sign:
Fireworks illegal. Happy Fourth of July!
All fireworks. At one time, at least, that included sparklers, though the police seemed to have enough to do that one day without crashing barbecues to confiscate sparklers from children.
Last year, I and every other [...]
How I manage homeschooling with children across such a broad age range (10, 6, 4, 2 and 4 months) is probably the most common question I am asked. It is also one of the more difficult ones for me to answer. The hardest is “How do you get it all done?” Because I don’t. And [...]
Catholic Dads recently asked how other homeschool families discuss homeschooling with family, friends and paticularly with the homeschooled children. Particularly the questions of children seem to draw out uncertainties. After all, we have so much power to frame the entire discussion and insert our views into our children. Catholic Dad’s questions echo my own thoughts [...]
This happens so rarely, I thought I should make note of it: For once, I agree with the school district.
Check out my daughter’s interview over at The Creative Homeschool regarding her e-zine. Just one more thing to add to the list of what she has been learning through blogging…
Last week, Michael Farris tweeted that Senator Jim DeMint had introduced the parental rights amendment into the Senate, followed by a Friday tweet announcing that the parental rights amendment had garnered 100 supporters in the House. After Michael Farris predicted that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) would come before the [...]
…in finding a name, of course. Mouse rejected the idea of calling the kitten “Mouse,” and dad scratched the very popular “Sassy” from the list. After watching her this evening, I’m thinking Dust Bunny wouldn’t be a bad name. She certainly likes them enough. She is a beautiful little thing and looks like she has [...]
The Globe and Mail out of Canada has some nice commentary on homeschooling. I particulary liked the fact that the author’s “conversion” to a supporter of homeschooling occured not after being inundated by statistics and well-crafted arguments. Instead, she was confronted with a roomfull of homeschoolers in a homeschool information night at her library.
Seated beside [...]
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