Okay, when last I wrote I mentioned that I’d gotten locked into a power struggle with The Manager on Thursday morning. Basically what happened was I started the day explaining to the younger boys that we were going to do our lessons in two blocks. Immediately after breakfast, we’d do the first half of math, [...]

photo credit: Ikhlasul Amal Tomorrow is the last day of the third week of school. Last year at this time, I posted about some battles that I was having with the boys. Some time later, a group of women who disagree with me on some basic parenting philosophies found the post and spent a few [...]

Welcome to September, Internets! How are you? Did August treat you well? I myself can’t answer that question because I’m still not sure where August went. I’m certain it was just July last week. So, how has everyone been feeling lately? Me…I’ve been a little stressed. Not tremendously so, just a little frayed around the [...]

Hey Internets, I forgot to tell you about my post over at GNMParents last Friday. It’s all about a surprise homeschooling issue we have run into of late. My first instinct was to go right over and say something serious like “don’t pick on my kid” but well…you know. Figuring out what side of the [...]

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 when [...]

Okay, if part 1 of this series could be given a subtitle, it would be Explore. Now in part 2, we’re going to Investigate. This article will discuss finding local legal requirements for home schooling looking at your favorite style or method more closely locating and joining local and regional support groups conventions and used [...]