When I was thinking about the topic today, Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” popped into my head. If you have kids at home then you know that someone is indeed watching you…all the time! We are most aware of this when they are around 3 or 4, and they repeat what we say at the most [...]
Filed under: Life Lessons on January 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
My son sums up the Golden Rule by saying: Treat others the way you want to be treated. I think that is a pretty good “sum up.” But when it comes to kids, especially our own, we can run into sticky territory. I would like to say that I always treat my children the way [...]
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So the question on the table is… What skills and knowledge will the kids need in the real world? My husband and I have been going back and forth on this for a while. We both agree that having exposure to a wide range of math, science, history, and literature is a good thing. One [...]
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I have been homeschooling my children for the last 8 years. We have studied history from ancient times to the present, biology, physics, chemistry, earth science, grammar, math, and many other subjects. We have been studying all of this in the name of education, an education that is supposed to get them ready for the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 6th, 2009 | No Comments »