Fun For Your Friday
Sorry I'm a little late getting this one posted, but better late than never! Here's my giggle for the day. This morning Keely (the puppy) was up at 5:30 with diarrhea, poor baby. And poor TechnoBoy and me, who were the lucky pair cleaning it up. After he'd taken her...
What Venus and Mars Have to Do With Reading
Gillian fromLearning to Read: Boys are from Mars, Girls are from Venus points out the vast differences between boys' and girls' development. Teaching my first two boys to read was quite challenging, and I've often thought readiness was part of the issue. We all know...
Thrive, a Children’s Hospital Blog
Editor's note: Please welcome our latest author, Kristin Cantu. Kristin is here today to tell us about Thrive, a blog written by the fine folks over at Children's Hospital in Boston. I knew you'd appreciate knowing about another fine resource online. Thrive: flu...
Nothing Like Weeping In the Night to Get My Attention
It's 2:00 am and I can't sleep yet; I'm too wound up. We've got company in the house, so I was up late cleaning the dishes and whatnot, then came to the computer to check email and was surprised to hear someone walking around in the night. Then I heard a door shut...
Merry Christmas, Friends
It's late in the night here at Earnest Parenting. The gifts are wrapped and under the tree, stockings are stuffed, and I've even got half the laundry finished. The boys are all sound asleep, although I bet they wake us up bright and early. The level of excitement...
Fun For Your Friday
Well, I'm a little late but we're still all about fun to end the week here at Earnest Parenting. I'm happy to inform you that my puppy is a very environmentally conscious individual. Really. She is! Just look for yourself in the photo above. That qualifies as...
Time to Stop Complaining
I noticed a problem recently: there is a lot of complaining going on here at Earnest Parenting. Chief complainer: Me. The rest of the family isn't far behind me. We all seem to have gotten sucked into a pattern of blaming others for situations and complaining...
Now I Know How the Brain Felt
Do you remember the television show Pinkie and the Brain? Great show. There was a conversation at the beginning of every episode in which Pinkie asked, "What are we going to do tonight, Brain?" Then the Brain would reply, "The same thing we do every night, Pinkie. Try...
Fun For Your Friday
It may be wise to set down all beverages for this one. Wouldn't want to cause you to choke or do a spit take all over your keyboard. You have been warned. Yesterday morning, a boy woke me up about 6 am saying he'd had a terrible nightmare and had had an accident in...
Snow Day
One of the beauties of homeschooling is the ability to control the calendar. (It's a curse, too, but we can discuss that another day.) Today we're having a snow day. Granted, all the local schools took their snow day yesterday. But hey! Better late than never, eh?...