Posted in Life, Perceptions, Philosophies and Methods on Sep 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
The guest on today’s The Diane Rehm show was Mark Penn, the man who coined the term soccer mom, Hillary Clinton’s chief presidential campaign adviser, and author of the book Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes.
According to the book review by Publisher’s Weekly, microtrends are “relatively small patterns of behavior in our culture [...]
Posted in Lesson Planning, Materials We're Using, Perceptions, Philosophies and Methods on Sep 14th, 2007 8 Comments »
This weekend I will be sharing here my plans for our celebration of the Fall Equinox/Mabon (which falls on September 23rd this year). Before that, I want to clarify where I stand regarding religious labels. I can’t really say I’m secular in the true spirit of the definition, but I also don’t believe [...]
Posted in Life, Perceptions on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
2/9/07: Today The Comet and I were talking about Van Gogh and the different stories that surround the cutting off of his ear. He was very puzzled by the story in which he put it in an envelope and gave it to a woman. “That’s silly. Why didn’t he just send her a card?”
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Posted in Lesson Planning, Life, Perceptions on May 8th, 2007 9 Comments »
I think we’re going to become unschoolers.
I’m a little scared.
I have all of those jitters and questions that people ask. You know the ones I mean…What if they don’t want to learn anything? What if they just want to play all day, every day, for the rest of their lives? What if [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Aug 28th, 2006 14 Comments »
I’ve not been blogging here for quite some time. My children spent half the summer with their father, and I’ve had nothing homeschoolish to say during that time.
But, oh, do I have some things to say now.
My ex has a new mother-in-law who is a retired public school teacher adamantly opposed to homeschooling. [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Jun 10th, 2006 8 Comments »
Yesterday I went to a few yard sales, looking for some books on my list for next year. Although it was fruitless, I did meet a woman with whom I had a discussion about homeschooling. She asked what led us to homeschool, and I told her my reasons, and one of them offended her…it was [...]
Posted in Perceptions on Jun 1st, 2006 4 Comments »
I have an aquaintance who recently told someone that my friend, who is an earth-mama unschooler, and I are involved in some kind of cult. Apparently the fact that we spend time discussing the origins of religion and keeping our kids out of public school, all the while eating veggies and free-range chickens while boycotting [...]
