We found out a couple weeks ago that our new baby is a girl. The entire family is thrilled and excited. Now the long, dull process of trying to choose and agree upon a name… Here are some pics of the little lady:
Gestating… again. It’s my excuse for doing almost nothing else during the past three months. Johnathan and I are expecting our fifth child in April. Here’s a pic of the little bugger (from about a month ago). Isn’t s/he cute?
At the very end of my first post on this blog, Growing Without School, I promised to write about growing without faith. I’m finally ready to make good on that promise! I wrote then that I considered faith “the worst agent of intellectual poison, a cancer that most people willingly inflict upon their children’s developing [...]
I have observed during my years as a homeschooler that in general, teens who have been homeschooled stand out as qualitatively different from their schooled peers. They usually seem older than their years and remarkably independent, responsible, and competent. They often hold jobs (sometimes full-time ones), apprentice with craftsmen or professionals, and engage in sophisticated, [...]
(More slapdash posting. As I may have mentioned, I’m starting a new business, and I’m in the middle of a three month crunch time.) As a homeschooler, I’m in contact with — hell, I’d even say friends with — some pretty fringe folks. Among these many sub-populations are vaccine avoiders, those who feel that the [...]
There has been a lot of talk about “bad words” in my life recently. A couple weeks ago, my 14-year-old nephew got in trouble at school for calling his friend (within earshot of school personnel) “nigger”. He was not convicted of a hate crime because his friend confirmed that the use of this word did [...]
(Pardon the dashed-off style of this post; it’s been a busy day.) Rebecca and I are unschoolers because we think school impedes learning and social development. Some, but not all, of the arguments against schooling apply to college as well. Certainly the fragmented instructional timetable and testing of college can be just as artificial as [...]
Quillan Carranza had his 9 month portraits today.
This past Wednesday marked our first substantial snowfall of the season. There’s really no such thing as a homeschool “snow day”, but we homeschoolers never need an excuse to spend the day enjoying a storm and playing in the snow! The kids had a blast sledding and throwing snowballs in the freezing cold. I, of [...]
So the other day I went out grocery shopping alone, and as I pulled into the Shop Rite parking lot I realized that I’d driven the entire way happily singing along to my children’s CD, which automatically started up when I started the car. They Might Be Giants’ Here Come The ABCs rocks! And the [...]