by Amy LeForge | Sep 19, 2008 | Home Schooling
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 days...
by Amy LeForge | Jun 10, 2008 | Home Schooling
Some children have been calling my boys inferior because we homeschool. The first time The Manager and TechnoBoy mentioned it to me I was pretty shocked. I’ve been prepared for adults to give me a hard time about it, but to have children make these comments was...
by Amy LeForge | Apr 25, 2008 | Education
I started taking piano lessons when I was in the first grade, and intended to start the older boys fairly young as well. As it turned out, the activities we had were enough and I didn’t get started on piano. Last year, things were going better so I thought it was time...
by Amy LeForge | Apr 21, 2008 | Home Schooling
Hey, I’ve got a happy thought for you, Internets! Today in grammar the older boys were asked to recite a list of prepositions that we’d all memorized a while back. Since none of us had looked at it in weeks, I suggested taking some time to review...
by Amy LeForge | Mar 21, 2008 | Education
We were studying Russia in history a few weeks ago, and one of the suggested activities was to decorate eggs along the lines of the Faberge eggs enjoyed by Tsars of long ago. Sounded like fun to me! Here’s what we did. First, we got some plastic Easter eggs. I used...
by Amy LeForge | Jan 15, 2008 | Home Schooling
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...
