I often hear or overhear recently inducted homeschooling parents bemoaning the fact that they are falling behind, are behind schedule, or some other variation on the same concept. Now I suspect that while the unschoolers find this idea utterly riddiculous, there are many more homeschoolers who find themselves feeling this way than I have even come […]
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When you are six, a table covered with a blanket is not a table, but a deep, dark cave. And a touch light is a carved bowl of burning animal fat. When you are six, you can become a caveman or cavewoman as easily as you breathe, crushing and mixing your paint in a bowl with […]
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You’re a regular guy, driving home for lunch to your regular house in the ‘burbs in your regular company car. You turn down your cul-de-sac in your regular new construction neighborhood and suddenly something looks decidedly irregular. A large gaggle of school aged kids and a handful of mothers (one of which you think is […]
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Being what I like to call a “total body learner,” Athena loves to really emerse herself in studying a subject. This often means she desires to engage all of her senses in the process. She is truly what Sarah Ban Breathnach would call a “sensuist.” So when we start discussing and reading about Ancient Egypt, she […]
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Crunchy Mama waxes philisophical from her happy Texas home where she resides in matrimonial bliss with Patris Maximus and the Triad of Chaos: the ring leader, Athena, and her devoted twin followers, Apollo and Artemis