Gearing Up for School…Ouch Those Attitudes!
We're getting ready for the new homeschooling year here at Earnest Parenting. Okay, let's see. What's our progress on the todo list? Books ordered - check Supplies purchased - check Calendar ready - check Positive attitudes in play - nope. uncheck This morning The...
Life Lessons: Debt
Teaching children about debt should happen as early as possible. TechnoBoy borrowed twelve dollars from me to buy some baseball cards (a new passion here in the EP household) a few weeks ago. He's not a boy with high ambitions when it comes to money. He rarely does...
How To: Start Homeschooling (Part 5)
This is the final entry in the How To Start Homeschooling series. In the first post, we talked about Exploring your options. Second, we Investigated the possibilities. Next we did Planning and in part 4 we talked about Purchasing. Now, we will talk about setting up...
8 Interesting Things about Me
Yikes, I got tagged for a meme by Joe from FatheredFive. You have to read his list, it's hilarious (sorry, the site no longer exists). I've been pondering it for over a day now, and I have to admit this is a difficult one. I have to come up with 8 things all by myself...
Filling the Love Bucket
Captain Earthquake climbed up on the couch with Hubby a little while ago, and just chatted away with his dad about motorcycles and bullets and important boy things. Eventually I joined them, and the Captain was blissful, getting the full attention and affection of...
Love and Logic
Love and Logic - A general overview of my thoughts on this parenting approach. Okay, so I've mentioned the Love and Logic books in other posts, but I've never really sat down and discussed the method here on the blog.I'll start by telling you that I've read several of...
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Subscription, and it's a great tool. You'll be hearing more and more about it as the service catches on. What it does is take the articles posted on all of your favorite blogs (many other kinds of web site also have RSS feeds) and deliver...
Disclosure Policy
I started this site because I want to share my funny stories and the lessons I've learned so far on this journey, and also because I want to use the site to earn some extra income. That being said, below is my official disclosure policy.. This policy is valid from 21...
Visiting Grandpa
Caregivers are heroes. I just spent several days with my grandfather and his wife. Her name's Anne. She's my grandmother by marriage, so I've always called her by her first name. No disrespect has ever been intended...it's just that I remember my biological grandma,...
Hot Stuff
One of my highest aspirations in life is to make people smile. Guess I'm actually making progress on that goal. I just found out I'm nominated for the Hot Stuff award over at GNM Parents. Who woulda thunk it? I'm honored! Thanks to whoever put my story Fine Toothed...