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March 2009

Homeschooling for Grown-ups

March 31, 2009

As a homeschooling parent, I learn at least as much as I teach. I don’t mean that in some fuzzy “the kids teach me so much just by being themselves” way. Yes, the kids constantly pull me back to the magic of the beginner’s mind, and I learn about myself and the world that way. [...]

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Look! I'm a tiger!

March 31, 2009

Today’s dinner ends with Rio running out of the room in a rage because we did not serve burritos with orange cheese, and running back in a few minutes later holding her arm straight out next to her face. “Look, Mom! Look! What am I?” “I dunno. Hurt?” “No! I’m an elephant!” She waves her [...]

Tagged as: parenting, serena

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Credo Mobile

March 31, 2009

Credo Mobile has a great offer which ends at midnight March 31. They will a) buy out your current contract and b) give you 10% off your cell phone service for the next two years. What makes Credo Mobile unique is that they exist to use corporate power to promote social justice. According to their [...]

Tagged as: green, money

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Growing in the Garden: First Harvest

March 31, 2009

The kids and I went out a few days ago to turn over some soil and plant our peas and beans. To our amazement, our garden already has Stuff growing in it. Edible Stuff! Ah, the joy of perennials. While we were inside whiling away the winter hours on art projects, last year’s sleepy plants [...]

Tagged as: gardening, homeschooling

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Growing in the garden: making mud

March 30, 2009

Last month, I presided over the creation of a large bucket of mud with my homeschooling coop. I threw a couple of towels on the floor, gave each kid a wooden spoon and a few dried disks of soil mixture that came in a science kit Jen dropped off for us, and we went crazy [...]

Tagged as: food, garden, homeschooling

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Willpower

March 29, 2009

Rio’s favorite read these days is the Frog and Toad books, which I love because it was my favorite when I was her age. Right now, we are both loving the chapter called “Cookies”, in which Toad bakes far too many cookies, and he and Frog have to figure out a way to stop eating [...]

Tagged as: humor, reading

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Where do we go when we die?

March 28, 2009

Today at dinner, Rio wanted to know where we go when we die. She’s very interested in death lately. I keep telling myself, and all the other adults she’s freaking out with her questions about it, that this is a perfectly normal developmental stage for a kid her age (four going on thirty). We had [...]

Tagged as: parenting, rio, witchcraft

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Spelling 'Hell'

March 27, 2009

“Dada, how do you write ‘hell’?” “Hell?” “Yeah, ‘hell-a-kitty’”

Tagged as: rio, spelling

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transitional objects?

March 27, 2009

Do you still have a transitional object from your own childhood? What sort of role does it play in your life now? My answer: I have the pillow I’ve slept on every night since I was two years old. As that sentence implies, it plays the same role in my life now that it did [...]

Tagged as: family of origin

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What to do with the greens?

March 27, 2009

This question haunts me, and I suspect almost everyone who subscribes to a CSA. Now that my fairly-traded, locally-grown organic vegetables are in my house, by the bushel, what do I do with them? Recently my friends and I have been playing a game of lettuce tag. Most of us belong to the same year-round [...]

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