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Don’t Blow Your Nose on Henry’s Wife

06-Sep-07

Well, our first official day of somewhat structured learning was yesterday and it was all we’d planned and more. It included multiplication, Ancient History, high dudgeon, writing, a wedding, gastritis, and putting a fingertip back together.
Like the grasshoppers we are, we frittered away our summer, lounging on the deck, wandering through the fields of Black-Eyed [...]

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Zen-Schooling

30-May-07

Tammy Takahashi at Just Enough, and Nothing More practices what she calls Zen-Schooling. Her poem explains it a lot better than I can.

How to Teach
by Tammy Takahashi
Teach without attachment to the outcome.Teach without the need to be right.Teach with the desire to see our kids spread their own wings.Teach with the viewpoint that we aren’t [...]

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