Adding to the “reasons to homeschool” file: City’s educrats can’t get it write Thank you for the link, sleepingwolf. I’m right there with you.
Gratitude
crimsonblossom—thank you. You didn’t have to do that. The card and the present are much appreciated 🙂 I’m thankful for: 1) Aforementioned pressie and the sweet lady who sent it 🙂 2) Friends who are really into Halloween who invite…
Mind Mapping
Neat stuff: Graphic Organizers: Graphic organizers (also called concept maps, entity relationship charts, and mind maps) are a pictorial way of constructing knowledge and organizing information. They help the student convert and compress a lot of seemingly disjointed information into…
Health Stuff, School, and Car
From the “this was a surprise to anybody?” department: Kids in homes with heavy TV use may have reading trouble, study says San is running Katie about for some testing/lab work today. She had to safeword on the lab work…
Therapy
The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. –Harold B. Lee So “short-term therapy” is available to me through my school—a maximum of 6 sessions. I have an appointment…
School & Disability
I’ve just begun the process of withdrawing from my courses and requesting that I be given an “incomplete” grade for each of them so that what I have done this semester won’t be wasted. My three professors are meeting briefly…
Demographics Are Not Community
I wrote a long post about community to a homeschooling list in response to a discussion about “feral” children some of us have encountered, and nobody responded. That always upsets me. So I’m going to inflict the damned thing on…
Today’s APOD
hopeevey, have you seen this? It made me think of you 🙂
Cool Site/Healthy Meal
Even if I weren’t homeschooling, I don’t think I could ever leave the HSing lists because I just enjoy the resources that are shared there too much to not lurk, at least: GodChecker If you felt a weirdness in the…
Whinging