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The Homeschool Chronicles

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June 2011

June 13, 2011

The Results Are In!

Thank you to everyone who helped us with the mistakes survey!  (To read more about...

June 11, 2011

Way Back

It's 7:21 on a Friday night, and I'm ready for bed. If that isn't enough...

June 10, 2011

Brothers and Sisters

After teaching in New York for five years, I went to grad school.  If I...

June 09, 2011

Milky

Still thinking about race.  (See Day 1 and Day 2.) When I was first teaching,...

June 08, 2011

Talking Race

I’ve been thinking about race lately. Actually, I think about race a lot.  Just ask...

June 06, 2011

One of “Them”

A few years ago, sitting in the park with a group of hip, Cambridge mommas,...

June 04, 2011

A Work In Progress

I'm so done with our mistakes project.  I'm done talking about it, reading about it,...

June 03, 2011

Pitching a Tent

What is it about a tent?  Two nights ago the boys set up a tent...

June 02, 2011

Interventions

The boys need an intervention.  A reading intervention, to be precise. Ezra, who has amazing...

June 01, 2011

Counting On It

Poor Jeff.  He was born in California during the 50s, which means that he learned...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

Check Mate

After my first thoughts on the Tiger Mom controversy, I haven't had much to say....

May 28, 2011

An Idiom Quiz

Two books about idioms arrived today.  The boys are calling them joke books and I can...

May 27, 2011

Phone Home

Jeff forgot to call his mom on Mother's Day. Who does that? I should have...

May 26, 2011

Literally

Today's post is "hot off the presses." If you understand what that means, then you...

May 25, 2011

When I Grow Up

  "Nafisa, do you like history?" Zach asked a fourteen year old friend who was...

May 24, 2011

All The Other Babies

We went to a meeting tonight of parents considering a Christian, homeschooling cooperative of sorts....

May 21, 2011

Blogroll

Until I started writing a blog, I didn't read a single blog regularly.  Now I...

May 20, 2011

Do Not Worry About Tomorrow

When Zach was a baby, I refused to call him colicky.  Even though he was...

May 19, 2011

Survey Monkeys

We're still working away on our "Mistakes" story.  Tuesday, the boys and Wendy designed a...

May 18, 2011

Fire

I knew that we were going to have a hard time with Ezra when he...

May 17, 2011

Get on the bus

We just finished watching the PBS American Experience episode, Freedom Riders. Ezra fell asleep around...

May 13, 2011

Big Mommas

Stop the presses!  This just in: Children need big mommas. I had started a post...

May 13, 2011

Great Expectations

"Daddy?" "Yeah?" "You know how you took the whole day off on Zach's birthday?" "Yeah?"...

May 12, 2011

Un-bathing

Last week, I started a series on Social Stories and how we are using them...

May 11, 2011

No More Homeschool?

What if I give up completely on my objectives and curriculum?  What would happen if...

May 10, 2011

Monday’s Post

I write every day, Monday through Friday.  The discipline of writing every weekday means I...

May 07, 2011

Charm School

Day 3 of a Series on Social Stories Click here to read Day 1 and one...

May 06, 2011

Fig Leaves

Day 2 of a Series on Social Stories:  Click here to read Day 1, and...

May 04, 2011

Life on Planet Earth

Several people working with the boys over the years suggested that I read "social stories"...

May 04, 2011

Keep Hope Dead

Being socially clueless has its benefits. Like today, when we told the boys that Kathiana...

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