January 12, 2010 at 12:00 am (Attitude, Bossy, Camping, E, Genetics, Jeff, N)
Tags: Attitude, Bossy, Camping, E, F-U Chromosome, Hungry, Jeff, MRU, N, Snow, Thirsty, Thumb, Tired, Violin
Before his beloved violin teacher could get much further, N jumped in with his thoughts on the matter.
“There are four reasons I was grumpy today. 1) I didn’t get my full time at MRU (homeschool group). 2) I am thirsty. 3) I am hungry. 4) I didn’t get enough sleep last night. Oh, and number 5 is that my thumb felt weird which distracted me and I made mistakes.”
I am shocked he didn’t say something about how we make him sleep in the backyard and hunt for his own food. I’m not sure why his thumb felt weird, though he did complain about it for hours after hitchhiking home from violin.
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January 7, 2010 at 11:54 am (Authors, Books, Children's Books, E, Homeschooling, N, Peanut Butter Sandwiches)
Tags: Authors, Children's Books, E, Homeschooling, Late Again, N, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Snow, Unschooling
We’re homeschoolers with most of our educational eggs in the unschooling basket. The unschooling philosophy is what works for us, though I resisted for a good year before I realized all of our best days and biggest breakthroughs have been on the days when we relax and follow our bliss. Tonight, for instance, my four year-old, who we’ll call “E”, wanted to play cards with me. He was quite disappointed when I opened up a generic alphabet deck.
“Dang it! I wanted cards with aces and jacks!”
So we proceeded to play around with the cards and he worked very enthusiastically on some great four letter words. I strongly believe that it’s never too early to work on the four letter words!
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