September 21, 2007 – 6:41 am
School is well underway for most of us, and we are far enough into the year to begin feeling behind. Stressed, we begin looking over the fence at the Jones’, where the grass is always greener and the children never whine. Meeting with other homeschoolers brings a mixture of encouragement and feelings of [...]
September 11, 2007 – 5:01 am
The most frequently asked question I receive from polite strangers has nothing to do with socialization and everything to do with latent fears regarding parenting. “How do you do it all?” They ask as my daughter bags groceries and I pay. I revel in the praise which comes as a welcome distraction from [...]
August 21, 2007 – 3:55 am
Ian Lewis, UK minister for older people, has an interesting proposition for the public schools in Britain, something I think would be worthy to pursue here in the states.
‘I would like to see older people having their lunch at a local school, acting as role models and mentors for the kids, and then perhaps local [...]
August 12, 2007 – 6:24 am
Since I was able to find the brochure Kö rper, Liebe, Doktorspiele (Body, Love, Playing Doctor) (pdf, in German, free download), I wanted to revisit the topic and provide some more information. Some general observations:
This brochure is a forty page document with the goal of describing the psycho-sexual development of children and assisting [...]
August 11, 2007 – 6:32 pm
It is official. My husband was forced to Denver and we just saw him off. He should be seeing his first glimpse of the Rockies in a few hours. It has been looming over us for a couple of weeks, now. Denver is so very far from Lincoln. Eight hours. [...]
Why did we choose to homeschool? My husband says it was “impressed upon him that homeschooling was God’s model for the family.”
I said,
Homeschooling? You are nuts. Homeschooling is for over-controlling parents attempting to live their lives through their children. It is for people who place greater importance on spelling bees and [...]
Yesterday, I got my hair cut and, not being well-versed in idle chit chat with complete strangers, I was relieved that my hairdresser did not have much to say. A neighboring patron, however, more than made up for our silence. As she pried into the social lives of everyone in the room, I [...]
Now it is abuse to not kiss a guy before marriage?
Michelle looks happy enough, but it can’t possibly be real. Not when:
her parents so brainwashed her from the time she was not capable of making an informed decision, and then insulated her from society to maintain that indoctrination so severely, that this girl has [...]
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