Becoming Illiterate

October 4, 2011 at 12:20 pm (Authors, Blather, Books, Children's Books, Excess, Fear, Math, Road Trip, Time)
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I used to read.  A lot.  At the height of my blissful insanity I read four books in one day.  They weren’t all War and Peace, but they weren’t Magic Treehouse either.  Fast forward a decade and I’m becoming illiterate. Read the rest of this entry »

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Too Cool For School

March 20, 2010 at 12:17 am (Attitude, Books, Children's Books, Close Call, Dancing, E, Homeschooling, Jeff, N, Peanut Butter Sandwiches)
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Today was the first day of the 2010 InHome Conference, our local homeschooling conference in St. Charles, IL.  Jeff took the day off work to chaperone N and E, and the boys enjoyed an Art Extravaganza, Magic Show, live animal “critter corner” and an awesome Physics show.  E had security notified of his presence before we even had a chance to digest our lunch!  I’m sure this doesn’t come as much of a shocker to anyone. Read the rest of this entry »

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How Awesome Is It?

January 7, 2010 at 11:54 am (Authors, Books, Children's Books, E, Homeschooling, N, Peanut Butter Sandwiches)
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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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