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My good friend wrote me this email:
> I’m kind of beside myself right now w/my 28 month old’s behavior at
> the
> table. For the last several nights she has been acting in
> unacceptable ways.
> She is throwing food on the floor, intentionally dropping
> silverware, trying to
> crawl all over me (I sit next to her), [...]
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I personally don’t think it is ever truly good for a young child to be separated from their family to attend kindergarten or preschool, BUT I think social interaction in the company of his mother or father is important and not just in the church setting.
We currently attend a playgroup/coffee group once a week and [...]
First of all - take a deep breath! You’re doing fine. You WILL find a way of homeschooling that works well for you and your kids and everything will work GREAT!
Everybody has their own homeschooling style and they vary greatly - from very strict “school at home” to the very natural “unschooling” and everything in [...]
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My 9yo dd’s way of dealing with these situations goes something like this:
BusyBody: Do you know the capital of North Dakota?
DD: Uh, that stuff is so boring. Did you know koalas are the pickiest eaters on earth? There are several hundred different kinds of eucalyptus, and they will only eat the kind that is poison [...]
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I just have to vent about a conversation I had with my daughter’s best friend’s mom. I am 99.9% sure we will be homeschooling my 7 year old daughter next year. She is unhappy even in the private school she is currently attending. She has no conduct problems, she gets straight A’s but she is [...]
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Spunky Homeschool: Written by a homeschooling mother of 6, this blog is no longer regularly updated but still contains some great educational news and commentary for those teaching kids at home or anywhere else.
Here in the Bonny Glen: Melissa Wiley, author of a number of books about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s great grandmother, blogs here [...]
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1. When my kids play garage sale and put a ton of toys in one big messy heap I help them clean it up. If they don’t help or run out of steam I put the stuff up that they don’t clean up. We have a walk-up attic so I just put it in a [...]
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Many people ask me how I manage to keep sane with the housework whilst having 2 toddlers running around:
My main advice is to keep you expectations low. People with small children are not SUPPOSED to have immaculate house. If the kid(s) get fed, clothes are clean (but not necessarily folded and/or put away), there are [...]
My son likes to dance a lot. Sometimes to kids music but a lot of time to my ipod (he especially likes They Might Be Giants since they have all kinds of funny songs like “Dr Worm.”)
If the weather is warm, I put a very large piece of paper on our fence and let him [...]
These are my top 5 homeschooling blogs as of today!
1.Homschool Zoo Annex
I followed this homeschooling blog for some time. However this mom has suffered a lot over the past few months and needs all our support. This is one of my favorite blogs to learn new education resources.
2.A day in the life of…
This homeschool blogger [...]