Jun 29
The homeschooling community is so small and intimate, when compared to the population of the world. And of that homeschooling community, the people that identify themselves as unschoolers? A mere fraction. Unless you quite deliberately keep your family isolated, you’ll at least know of other unschoolers, all around the world. You’ll recognize their names, …
Jun 21
Listen to Our Babies, Heal Our Nation: Bloggers Unite to Humanize Babies July 1-8, 2012 The US has some of the highest rates of depression, anxiety, cancer, and other diseases in the world. Every year our government puts billions of dollars into funding programs that attempt to address these issues. The efforts are consistently ineffective. …
Jun 17
I have a great dad. My dad played with me. He helped me make sense of my math homework. He patiently sat on the floor to assemble new bikes and toys and puzzles. He taught me not to take life too seriously. He taught to me to hang spoons from my nose. He taught me …
Jun 14
I’ve been an insomniac on and off for my entire adult life, so not sleeping is a not a new thing for me, but not sleeping because of pain is an entirely different proposition. Before, I’d get up if it was really bad, but I’d otherwise snuggle up in my half-conscious stupor, and get lost …
Jun 12
Sometimes the objections are loud and brazen: “Unschooling as a Christian is a SIN!” Sometimes they are cautious and confused, a quietly whispered, “Isn’t that… you know… unbiblical?” Either way, they both stem from the same place: Fear. Fear and a basic misunderstanding of what the Bible does and does not have to say about …
Jun 09
This is me about a month ago, feeling pretty badass for keeping up with all the men-folk on the camping trip. I’d just thrown that little hatchet into the tree – with amazing accuracy I might add – after only my second or third attempt. This was after we chopped wood (or rather, attempted to …
Jun 02
I’m disheartened. I’ve been getting two diametrically opposed types of comments and messages lately. The first is people pointing my attention to various articles, stories and posts about things that they know I’ll disagree with parenting-wise, and that they hope I’ll write about. I appreciate that because 1) it’s humbling to think anyone would want …
Jun 01
It never fails. Every time we take a cool trip, or have a fun new experience, I swear I’m going to write a completely awesome blog post all about it. I’ll post lots of pictures, I’ll regale you all with funny stories and anecdotes and pithy observations. It will be epic. And then, um, I …
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