Category: Family
VOTE!
Photo by farlane Don’t forget to get out there today and cast your vote! If you’re not sure where to go check out Vote411.org’s polling place finder. Still need some last minute info on candidates? Check out SmartVoter.org for information on candidates in your area. The Democracy Project (from 2008 but still mostly relevant) at pbskids.org has…
The Kids Aren’t All Right. ‘Race to Nowhere’ – Movie Review
Race to Nowhere exposes the dark side of America’s achievement culture and its harmful effects on our children. I had an opportunity to attend a screening of this film this week. Overall it was a sad tale of the stress and overwhelming pressure today’s youth is under. It exposes a school system in which neither educators nor students are truly thriving but just getting by, or…
Homeschooling and Socialization
[ad name=”Above Content”] I was recently asked by a mom considering homeschooling about socialization and she was concerned that her kids would be missing out on social experiences if they weren’t in school. There is a common misconception that homeschoolers are unsocialized and don’t know how to interact with others and their peers since. It’s…
How to (Not) Worry About Homeschooling
[ad name=”Above Content”] As a family we definitely have a more unschooling bend to us and my husband and I are really free form with the girls education. That being said our girls LOVE workbooks and so do we. I attribute this to the fact that no one has ever told them that workbooks aren’t…
Getting Corny – Corn Husk Dolls
[ad name=”Above Content”] At our CSA’s harvest festival over the weekend I was a volunteer and I was tasked with helping both children and disabled adults create corn husk dolls. I had a blast. These dolls are very simple to make and my friend and I assisted in the making of around 150 dolls….
Ghoulish Garlands
The girls and I decided to make some Halloween decorations. Their current obsession with vampires led them to create some crazy vampire families, good and evil, to hang around the house. While they were doing that I grabbed some great printable garlands online from Paper Crave and The Long Thread. Continue Reading ….