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Category Archives: parenting

War College

12-Nov-07

Yesterday afternoon, I was pondering, something I do on alternate Saturdays. My great-uncle Sam used a similar system for worrying, only he did it on alternate Tuesday mornings, because he’d read a book on how worrying causes stress and didn’t want to get heart disease. He died at 86 from diabetes, so I guess it [...]

Head Banging As Therapy

08-Nov-07

I’m taking a little break from banging my head on my keyboard and howling, because it’s not proving as therapeutic as I thought it might be when I started doing it about fifteen minutes ago. I’ll be darned if I can figure out why it doesn’t work like it did when I was 4, but [...]

Instead of School

07-Nov-07

When people ask me what we do instead of school, I hardly know where to begin. If they’re parents of public schooled kids, I know that they probably think we sit down for lessons at 8, break for lunch and then do more lessons until 2:30. Or they think that we’re slackers and just goof [...]