Pulling Teeth

Last Monday (March 24th) I took our son to the dentist.  His adult teeth were growing in behind his baby teeth in front bottom. The dentist said this occurs in about half the people he sees.  It’s not something to worry about very much but his adult teeth were getting crowded back and I was [...]

math-u-see

This time of year homeschool families are thinking about next school year. They want to switch programs if things haven’t worked out and look into higher levels on the ones that have. Math seems to be a subject that has a lot of switching around. I think we must have lucked out because we have [...]

plagiarism

It seems with every new technology comes new ways to try to beat the system. The internet is no exception. Although no longer a new technology, it is one of the most abused today. People use the internet to post porn and lure young children. They plan terrorism via e-mail. The abuses which concerns me [...]

Happy Easter!!!

HAPPY EASTER, HE IS RISEN!!!
If we weren’t sick this week, I was going to have Spring Break last week to teach the kids the importance of this Holy Week. I want them to understand that Easter is more than candy, egg hunts, and pastel colors. We don’t have Easter baskets or believe in the Easter [...]

keeping your place, routines, games

9/18/07 keeping your place, bedtime routine, games
I don’t know if I mentioned it before or not. I have a good way to keep your place in the curriculum guidebooks. Use a large paper clip attached to the day’s lesson page. At the end of the lesson move it (if necessary) to the next page. Use [...]

freedoms

10/15/07 freedom
One thing has been on my mind lately is freedoms and the role of the state. How much freedom is too much, how much is protectionism? In education, I think as long as the outcome is the same, what difference does to method make? The main goal of schooling is to prepare young [...]

Pizza Hut “Book It”

10/19/07 Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT!
In the latest packet of stuff from our homeschool program, there were certificates from Pizza Hut’s BOOK IT! Program. For those of you unfamiliar, this program encourages kids to read by rewarding them with a free personal pan pizza for accomplishing a reading goal. In theory this is a good idea. [...]

Peanut butter

10/28/07 peanut butter
We used the last of the peanut butter in a jar Friday. No big deal. We had more. A lot more, 35 pounds to be exact! Back at the beginning of the month we went bulk shopping including a stop at the local mill feed store where we bought 25 pounds of oatmeal [...]

Halloween

Halloween
Perhaps I’m being overly conservative but I’ve slowly come to the realization that Halloween is not the safe, fun holiday it is portrayed as. Yes, growing up I went trick-or-treating and dressed up as a witch myself, but even then I sometimes wondered (especially as I got older) why we had this strange holiday to [...]

Essential and non-essential

3/17/08 Open to interpretation?
I probably shouldn’t be so judgmental but I was browsing a church’s website which says some things that concern me in as much as it shows the state of apostasy. They say they are open to everyone, which is fine. However, they don’t seem to have much of a solid core of [...]