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Category Archives: parenting

Ant Rant

30-Jun-08

Lynn over at
Bore Me to Tears (the blog that asks if you’re an Ant trying to understand the Internet) posted about whether or not kids should be tested for knowledge and I wrote a comment that threatened to turn into a short novel, so I figured I’d better post here instead. First of all, [...]

Unschooling On The Side

27-Jan-08

I guess I AM an optimist. I just went to take a nap in my bedroom which is directly under Son’s bedroom where he and two other teenage boys were playing a board game. You’d think I’d know by now that there are board games - think senior citizens playing checkers - and there are [...]

The Fabric of our Family Life

19-Jan-08

This has been one of those weeks where my email brings me the world, or at least the more interesting parts of the world. From my friend Margaret at the Secular Homeschooler’s play group that Daughter and I attend, I got this neat link -
Peter Callesen’s Paper Art. I love the skeleton. (How’s [...]