August 15, 2025

A lot of the arguments I see again and again against early learning are bogus, especially for parents planning on homeschooling. Here are 3 that have been on my mind lately.Benefits to enrolling in Head Start fade over timeOne is that there are studies that have shown that the benefits of enrolling in Head Start

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July 24, 2025

I stumbled across this video on Facebook and it raised a lot of red flags for me. Granted, I love homeschooling, I’m in the trenches, and it’s a huge part of our family culture and shared experience. But I fundamentally disagree with several claims and statements that were said in this video, although I do applaud

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June 27, 2025

We have been without a DVD player for some time. Lots of computers, but no TV, and a projector that can be a pain to set up. They don’t include them in any of the new laptops. I tried buying a separate DVD player, but the sound was terrible. In the end, we decided that

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April 29, 2025

They say teach your kids how to think, not what to think.Usually this is interpreted to be bold enough to think for yourselves. Or to encourage creative thinking. Be a creator, and inventor, a problem solver.I’ve been thinking about this quote juxtaposed to brain science. How our brains work, how connections are made, and how

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December 10, 2024

One of my kids asked me to react to Michael reacting to woke Christmas TickToks.  First of all, I will preface this with saying that, from the Daily Wire, while I love The Comments Section and Jordan Peterson, and I sometimes get a kick out of Matt Walsh, sometimes hate him, I generally can’t stand

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September 29, 2022

Happy Michaelmas! (pronounced “mickle-mas”).  Michaelmas is celebrated September 29th.This year we are doing a lot of Waldorf things in our homeschooling, so while we did observe the equinox, we’re focusing on Michaelmas this year. Rudolf Steiner considered Michaelmas to be secondary only to Easter, and it is a big deal in Waldorf Schools as the

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