Tag: homeschooling
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8 Cuts
Progress continues, slowed a little by my dealing with a migraine that took me down this morning. We didn’t really get going until afternoon, and by then it was already more than 100F out there. Slowly, slowly. Patience, and lots of liquid, and then my friend handing me about 32 oz of delicious iced coffee…
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Mae Ploy
It’s funny, the little things that parenting entails. I was talking to the Little Man the other day, about when he really was my little man. “I used to make airplane noises to get you to eat.” I told him. “Really?” He’s sitting next to me in the car, and out of the corner of…
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School at Home
This isn’t going to be a long post, it’s a quick intro to a topic I’ll be blogging on at least once a week going forward. The Little Man is 15 now, and a sophomore, and would like me to let you know that he’s being homeschooled. I talked to him at the beginning…
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Dirty Little Secret
We are capable of more than we are asked to do. I have discovered this over the years as I gained in experience, learned that I have a decidedly not-normal life, and have observed other, more normal, people. Recently I keep hearing how astonished people are that I can do what I do. I’ll let…
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Education and the Farm
Here on the Farm we have not been homeschooling the children in the new sense of the word. That is, not sending them to public schools, but teaching them wholly at home, as I was, and my sisters with me. We have, however, and will always, teach the children at home. We encourage them to…