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Parenting Philosophies

I’ve been pondering deeply my approaches to parenting, and thought I’d share them with you. Let me start by saying that my way is NOT the be-all and end-all of parenting. Like I say in my tagline, I’m just doing my best to get the hang of this job....

Extra Reading

You may have noticed a couple of links in my blogroll section (soon to be its own page…this site is still under construction).  One is Financing Your Family, and the other is Fathered Five.  Both of these are blogs written by men, and I’ve been...

How To: Start Homeschooling (Part 3)

Okay, this is the third installment of my series on how to start homeschooling. First we talked about Exploring your options, then we discussed Investigating possibilities. Now, we’re going to talk about what Planning will help you get set up. I’m assuming...

Mystery solved

A memory from 2006 Captain Earthquake has been waking up at night. Okay, well, he wakes up every night, multiple times. He comes and gets me to tuck him back in. Sometimes its once a night, rarely he sleeps through, and often it’s multiple wake ups. Several...

How?

March 2006 Funny thing: my little boys don’t say why. Ever. They ask “how?” all the time. I don’t know where they got it, but that’s what they say. It’s clear they mean “why”, but they always say how. Or “have...