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August 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Being "salt and light," while being peppered with questions

It's not that I don't enjoy talking about my children or that I even mind talking about homeschooling but I find that so many people either want to catapult me into martyrdom or pepper me with questions that are framed by all of their assumptions. Suddenly, I find myself feeling like a poster child for unschooling. Honestly, I'm not much for small talk, however, I recently found myself smiling like a politician and giving glib responses to "How are you going to teach them higher… Continue

Added by Marilyn Shannahan on August 30, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Five things I know most about raising children

Five things I know most about raising children…

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Added by jenny penton on August 26, 2010 at 7:36pm — 3 Comments

Laughing at sad children

On CBS Sunday Morning, they're talking about letters from camp of kids begging parents to pick them up because they're not having fun. There's a book (might not be new) called P.S. I Hate It Here!: Kids' Letters from Camp But they're laughing at the kids about asking for help, by mail, which took effort to write, and days to receive. VERY sad. And the article is… Continue

Added by Sandra Dodd on August 15, 2010 at 10:01am — 9 Comments