If ‘socialization’ isn’t THE number one question about homeschooling, I don’t know what is. Public schooling has been the norm for so long, doing outside of the norm might ‘screw up’ the kids. Might make them…weird. Maybe they will become…
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5 Things for a New Single Parent to Remember
I was carpooling today with another mother following a bus to our children’s field trip. We were chatting about all sorts of things, small topics and large when the topic of when I became a newly single parent worked its way…
At a Loss on Election Day
Next Tuesday is Election Day. And I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m at a loss on Election Day. Every presidential election, I vote. I vote based on my own reasons and beliefs at that time and…
Is ‘Gay’ A Bad Word?
“Ma….is ‘gay‘ a bad word?”, my son asked me from the back seat as we made our way to a doctor’s appointment. There was a ton of traffic and it was just the two of us. He’s ten and I…
No More Homework!
Elementary school children are burdened with the worries and pressures of the strain of common core and it spills into the hours after the school day ends. It’s time to take back our children’s time in the afterschool hours and fill them with hope instead of homework worries.
