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March 2010 Blog Posts (7)

Television and other Stuff

My five year old loves TV. So do I, so it's no surprise, actually.

Instead of telling her that I had to walk a mile in the snow, uphill, to get to school, I regale her with tales of only three channels! Cartoons on Saturday! No huge flat screen! And (gasp!) no DVR!

It's interesting to me how she immerses herself in a show. She will only watch that show... and then she moves on. Her interests usually last a month or so.… Continue

Added by Cheri Rowbotham on March 30, 2010 at 6:43am — No Comments

We have a spambot!

We have a spambot! I've actually seen this on another site, but much, much more. Hopefully it'll get banned before it goes crazy.

Added by Keely (Sockzilla) on March 24, 2010 at 11:38am — 3 Comments

Dreams of School Days encourage me to home-school

I find it very amusing that so many of my dreams these days are about witnessing groups of children running from the school bus to the school building or from classroom to classroom, as well as plastic tubs full of supplies left untouched. I never dream of lessons being done...just about the transportation process from here to there. And that is what so much of formal schooling seems to be about. I have an M.Ed. in Elementary Education and have "taught" in classrooms. So much of… Continue

Added by Karen S Gault on March 18, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Getting Beyond the Age Factor

I have read many stories of home-schooled children accomplishing beyond what is expected of young people at young ages. I want to give my daughter a chance for developing this type of confidence - something neither my husband nor myself received when we attended school at her age. There is much we have had to teach ourselves! We have been encouraging her natural creativity, and her curiosity expands in all directions. Yesterday evening she noticed that there were rain droplets… Continue

Added by Karen S Gault on March 15, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

My favorite Kermit the Frog song EVER

Added by Sandra Dodd on March 13, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Following Curriculum causes Stress!

Sometimes my kids get bored at home so I finally took the plunge and bought 2 units of an American curriculum- Moving Beyond the Page.

The package arrived and they unwrapped it and were so excited about all the books and scales etc. All I could see was the proper order things should be used in and read.

So.. I became the Teacher and my kids became my Students and it was such a different dynamic from usual. I noticed that because I had invested so much money (teachers invest time) I was… Continue

Added by Miriam Skipworth on March 9, 2010 at 9:46pm — 1 Comment

a month without monsanto

http://web.me.com/aprildavila/MWM/Blog/Blog.htmlthis is not my blog but someone elses.

this women is trying to live monsanto free for a month. that includes food sprayed with roundup an

food grown with seeds that belong to monsanto even though they are not

gm.

monsanto is trying to buy every seed company there is and create a total monopoly.

she has her work cut out and let's say her diet is not a varied as it… Continue

Added by kassandra/sabelmouse on March 3, 2010 at 8:00am — 2 Comments