January 28, 2009 – 1:52 am
Apparently, this is from an email going around. All I can say is that of all the email forwards I get, why can’t I get cute ones like this? (I edited it a bit from the version I came across.)
Homeschooling, Doggie Style
The kids start the day with mom supervising breakfast.
Take your seats! (My favorite [...]
January 17, 2009 – 12:00 am
I’m sure most of you who hadn’t already stumbled across these videos when I started posting them have gone ahead and watched all four by now, but I figure they’re worth a second viewing…or even a third.
Now the world is collapsing for these young homeschooled kids, who sort of seem like they could live next [...]
January 10, 2009 – 8:52 pm
When we last met Grant, he had been IMed by a girl. Being homeschooled, neither he nor his companions knew quite how to deal with this surprise. Thanks to virtual communication, there is always a second chance with a follow up email.
Samantha, thou art a handsome woman.
What can go wrong with a start like that?
homeschool [...]
December 1, 2008 – 6:09 pm
December 1, Venus, Jupiter and the crescent moon converged for a one time display of cosmic dissatisfaction as the evening sky appeared to be frowning down upon us. The light here is obscuring the frown a bit, but it was pretty clear while I was taking the picture.
Things looked a little different down under where [...]
November 14, 2008 – 1:07 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 [...]
So, yeah. Today was not such a good day. But to understand, perhaps we need to go back a few days. To the end of last week. When I joyfully announced we were ahead of my plans for history. And I asked mouse what she would like to learn between [...]
An exemplary piece of writing appeared in the Daily Titan, a paper run by students of California State University at Fullerton. I say exemplary because it would have been posted as an example of how not to write by my high school journalism teacher whose infamous red pen often doubled the weight of pages [...]
In a startling development in California, a special task force consisting of SWAT teams and truancy officers has been developed, virtually overnight, targeting homeschool families.
Originally thought to be a logistical nightmare, distinguishing home-schooled children from that of the public school system, officials quickly learned they could gather up a list of suspects from last year’s [...]