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Is Knowledge Relative?
I just spent all my posting time writing another really long comment in the patience/unschooling thread. Is it cheating if I post it here as well? (Cheating what, Lissa?) Maybe not cheating, but...
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In our CM days, I used to keep rough daily lists of the books we read, lessons we did, games we played, “big ideas” we discussed, connections we made. The latter two categories were my favorite things...
View ArticleGetting Dinner on the Table, Now THAT’S Hard
Shaun wrote: Just don’t take this the wrong way: you make it sound so easy. Lay the right books around the house, throw in a little yarn and cool background music, and away you go! I know it can’t be...
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From the Archives: The Rabbit-Trailer’s Soundtrack
Originally posted March 28, 2005 Yesterday my kids pulled out a CD we used to listen to all the time: the soundtrack to Snoopy: The Musical. This was a play I loved as a teenager, when it was performed...
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Things to Buy Instead of Curriculum
Particularly Cool Stuff My Kids and I Have Learned a Ton From or Just Plain Had a Good Time With: Settlers of Catan, the board game. Jane got this for Christmas last year. We’ve been obsessed ever...
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From the Archives: Life on the Trail
Originally published in Februrary 2005. It’s been a rough morning. Our wagon tipped over while fording a river, and we lost fifty pounds of salt pork and our only shotgun. Then Rose took sick—cholera,...
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Fun Fun Fun
Hello, poor little neglected blog. The weekend was much too full of living to leave time for chronicling. And now I could sleep for a week! The Good Vibrations Unschooling Conference was a blast. Such...
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