Dental hygiene rocks. You know, when Grammy was here last week, I couldn’t help but notice that she and Mail had some unique things in common. The same slightly understated sarcastic responses to certain situations kept coming out of their mouths simultaneously. But there still is a tiny generation gap.
At one point at the dinner [...]

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On Monday we were conducting a simple experiment withtin cans which demonstrated Bernoulli’s law. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Basically, you blow air between the cans and the air pressure lowers and instead of the cans going apart as you’d figure, they come closer together. Anything hands-on and my kids are all for it, so I [...]

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Mail thought this story blog worthy. Before he hears my version he will write his version and then we will compare notes.
The sun sort of poked out its face today and we lost no time in tossing the books, video games and other learned things aside to go for a walk. We had a really [...]

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A few weeks ago I was in a public park with about 4 or 5 moms and dads, and about 10-15 kids, ages ranged from 2 to 16. The kids were mostly playing color tag. I was chatting with various parents about our upcoming year of girl scouts/boys club when suddenly a mom said “Look! [...]

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(Gene and Jude’s. All they sell is hot dogs and homemade fries. The line snakes out the door most days. They can afford to be bossy.)
Narry a week goes by without my 7-year-old boy asking “When will it be backwards day?” Sometimes he switches it out and calls it opposite day. The appeal is strong. [...]

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(Just before 14 years of married road paved us over, we looked like errant members of Flock of Seagulls. But we slept-in just about every day, darnit.)
Yesterday morning, I heard my kids online filling out a questionnaire for a reading program they are both doing. Anoif says , “Mail, it says here ‘If I [...]

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(14 years of wedded bliss as of today. There is a reason it is a thumbnail. That’s because it is the most recent picture taken of us and it was taken at dawn on Easter morning as children heartily sought out eggs and we hadn’t even brewed the caffeine yet.)
Okay, so yesterday my daughter and [...]

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(The dynamic siblings are proud winners of the three legged race. But note the kid glued to the fence behind them, that’s what cracks me up.)
It would be safe to say that my son Mail can avoid exertion as well as any boy in training. Homeschooling is not exempt from his quest to avoid it [...]

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(zombie fears courtesy of cousin Jacqui.)
Want to see what kids who grow up with educational freedom create? Fairhaven school is a free school in Maryland that is run democratically by the kids. Its like unschooling on site, and the results are beautiful. I recommend sitting through the whole trailer on Youtube so you don’t [...]

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(Recently I’ve learned that it is really hard to get mad at a gap-toothed kid who smiles at you.)
We should have been doing math, but instead we talked about it. This is always much more interesting.
It all started because I read a cool description of metaphysics and shared it with Ken when the kids were [...]

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