Jen at Pursuing Harmony wrote a touching post about her daughter’s experience with a new teacher critiquing her work. I was going to write some of my thoughts about what might be going on in that situation, but reading the comments that were left I… Read more
As I was visiting some of my fellow CoH bloggers today I came across a fabulous post comparing homeschooling with homecooking. Sebastian at Percival Blakeney Academy says this: I’ve yet to hear someone tell me that my cooking steak at home was… Read more
Challenges to intellectual freedom are never very far from our doorstep. There’s always someone who wants to tell you what to think, believe, or read, because she or he knows better than you do. It’s when that someone seeks to prevent other… Read more
We’ve all heard them, those ads for charitable organizations that want us all to dig into our pockets and sponsor a child in a developing country – or abused animals, or political prisoners, or, or, or…… It’s a good marketing strategy. Show… Read more
Dojogirl has been bugging us to buy her a cell phone, for going on two years now. Pretty much every adult I know has one of these devices, and a good number of the teens now have one as well. Cell phones have gone from being an expensive item used… Read more
