“Read to your kids,” parents are told over and over again. Choosing books in favor of T.V. or other sorts of entertainment is surely a no-brainer. But does it matter what you read to them? With all the reading campaigning that goes on, it would seem like any combination of words and pictures bound together […]
Why My Kids Aren’t Going To School Today
I haven’t written on homeschooling before—mainly because my kids are so young that I don’t have a lot of formal homeschooling experience, but also because the choice on how to school children can be such a divisive, delicate issue. Nevertheless, as our oldest approaches four years old, we have rightfully been getting asked more and […]
On Homeschooling and All Other Things “DIY”
We are a nation of outsourcing. In the last century we have figured out how to outsource our food, our labor, our entertainment, the education and raising of children, and even (with the advent of social media) our relationships. A person in this day and age can theoretically live an entire life without touching soil […]
