I’m not really strongly invested in the boys learning to write with perfect penmanship.  Between keyboarding and advances in voice recognition software, I figure that actual writing will be a pretty small percentage of their day by the time they’re adults.  Heck, I barely write….most everything I do is typed.  So the only requirement I [...]

Starting the day over.
Captain Earthquake crawled into bed and slept on Hubby’s pillow for a while this morning. Usually that makes for a cheerful start for him, but today it just wasn’t so. First he got into trouble for throwing a ball at a brother, then he got smacked in the face accidentally [...]

I’m tripping over books as I walk around the house today, and every time I do I’m just struck by the miracle that is my boys’ reading.  I’ve mentioned in other posts that there’s been a great deal of difficulty associated with home schooling here at Earnest Parenting.  This topic will be coming up again [...]

Heh heh heh. The Mercenary gets annoyed with me - routinely - because I insist on working through problems step by step whenever he gets stuck on things in school. Drives him crazy! He is a person who hates systematic approaches to things, and would much rather just stare at a page [...]

Well. Today was a complete change from yesterday.
Hubby put the boys to bed right after soccer last night, which means they went down right around 7:30. Unbelievably, there were still children asleep after 8:30 this morning. We got up and going, and zipped right through school lickety-split. I sent the older [...]

So.
Today was not a good one.
Remember when I wrote about the 3rd week of school being kinda bumpy?  But then I got all strict with the boys and they shaped up.  They’ve been deteriorating again.  This morning it took 2 hours to go through about 40 minutes worth of history, and another 2 hours for [...]