I attended a Homeschool 101 meeting for new homeschoolers and I was blown away by some of the observations and examples of "interest driven learning" and "child directed" learning and how allowing a child to follow his p…

I was sitting on my exercise bike trying to peddleaway a niacin flush when Christian came up to me and asked, “What is E plus 6?”I could see that he was holding the calculator upside down in his hands as heaske…

My children andI have a little game that we play whenever we get in the car. When I start the engine we all look up to seewhat the temperature is in Fahrenheit and then everyone guesses what the…

Today when I woke the children up two of them were covered in red spots! Their fingers were red, too, so they were busted. I guess they wanted to play a little trick on mom! Here is a video of our pre-K Math class at …

Thursday, September 14, 2006Math workbooks have PROBLEMS! I don’t know if any of you knew that Kelsey was very “behind” in Math. You might ask, “Behind what?” To which I would answer, “You know, like if a comet fell on m…