Reflections on Homeschooling, Parenting and Life
The boys had been asking us to make their bedtime later for quite some time. Apparently seven pm is on the early side. Their friends now stay up until eight or nine, or even ten. ”It’s so unfair,” they pleaded. But I’ve read too many reports on the importance of sleep to just give up [...]
“Who would let their children act like that in a restaurant?!” My mother and I were discussing the behavior of four children at the table next to ours last Saturday. The kids were loud, rambunctious, and whiny. The six adults with them, though, didn’t seem to notice. They each had a glass of wine [...]
“Some people worship money. Some people worship many gods. We mainly worship just one god.” Thus pronounced Ezra, as he was assessing our family’s spiritual devotion. Apparently he had been chewing on last week’s Sunday School lesson about the ten commandments, and had decided that while we “mainly worshipped just one God,” sometimes we fall [...]
On Tuesday, we choked down a few nasty beans and one nasty squash. Zach held his nose while he ate them, and followed each bite with a large milk chaser. Jeff, whose worst review of my culinary attempts is typically, “This isn’t that bad,” pushed the vegetables to the side and said, “These are NOT [...]
Next week is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The yummiest part of Rosh Hashanah celebrations is when you dip apples in honey, symbolizing your prayers for a sweet new year. Tomorrow, Ezra will go to Andy’s synagogue to do a presentation on our beehive for the Shabbat school there. He worked on the presentation [...]
Did you know that there are spelling rules? Sure, you may know i before e except after c, and a few others as well. But there are dozens of them. Rules that help you decide when to use a j instead of a g, and when to use tch instead of ch. I had no idea, [...]
I’m quitting my job. Not today. Possibly not until a year from now. But Jeff and I decided this week that I should quit working. After months of feeling torn between work and home, weighing the pros and cons of each, and trying to discern where I was called to spend my time, it was [...]
The No Child Left Behind policy attempts to hold teachers and schools, rather than children, responsible for student achievement. Luckily, it doesn’t apply to home schoolers. As I sat down to think about the schedule and objectives for this year, I thought I would do one final review of last year’s objectives. Bad idea. As [...]
I just finished Patricia Stacey’s memoir, The Boy Who Loved Windows, about her journey to heal her son of autism. In the process, she nearly wrecks her marriage, her family’s finances, her relationship with her daughter, and her sanity. She obsessively works to understand her son and fights to find him the best care possible. [...]
Are you one of the women who spends hours making beautiful baby books for your young? Or are you one of the women who spends hours making fun of the women who make beautiful baby books for the young even though you secretly wish you had the organizational and creative skills to pull off such [...]
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