I have the great fortune of a willing and able community that has seen my family through some of the worst times. Last year, having lived in the Midwest a total of 3 years with no local family or long-standing friends, I put out a call to help cover 2 weeks of babysitting because my husband only had 1 week of paid time off left. I needed to go through an intensive 3-week program to help with my Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And I had no shame in putting that "out there" because I function ... continue reading...
Vision and attention
A few years ago, my family embarked on the Feingold diet to help my then-6yo-son and much older husband deal with their horrible attention problems. We eat as a family. There are no short order cooks in my house. What one person eats, we all eat. What one is restricted from, we are all pretty much restricted from. We're a family and nobody is ostracized within our home. The benefit to this is that sometimes, other people derive positive benefits from what we're doing--completely ... continue reading...
Challenges for the new homeschool year
I think you can officially call yourself a homeschooler when your child is at the age of legal, compulsory school attendance and is not attending a private school or public program (there are public school run and operated school-at-home programs). My oldest was the last one to see a traditional, daily classroom and we pulled him out as he would have entered his Pre-Kindergarten year. We did it more out of necessity than any statement against a system per se. There wasn't a good placement ... continue reading...
August 1–Food for thought
Our family is Bible-based, but heavily connected to the earth. We don't find it difficult to celebrate a lot of the pre-Christian earth-based days of significance because we have stripped them of their allegiance to any particular god/desses, worships or sacrifices. What remains are observances and activities that make us take pause, reflect, make plans or just bask in the wonder of nature in ways that draw our family closer together and help us keep our direction in the world. They are a ... continue reading...
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