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Our son just came back from graduating from the National Leadership Council program in Colorado. Apparently he had an epiphany while there and felt an urgent…
For those of you following the story of my son’s college application process, we have an update.
Today I visited this high school in a district other than mine to pay for my son’s spring AP tests, since our town does not offer any.
Last weekend I was asked by a friend about homeschooling. Do I stand up at a blackboard and lecture? No… I said.
Today we visited Worcester Polytechnic Institute, or WPI as most people refer to it, in Worcester, Massachusetts. We left with a positive impression.
While at church in Boston last Sunday, I had the privilege of meeting Jenny Sawyer who has the website 60secondrecap.com that produces short video clip summaries of typical high school reading. Check out her library of clips about assigned reading such as Shakespeare or Lord of the Flies, or check out her pick of the … Read more
Today I drove to Rhode Island and back to visit Brown Engineering School with my son who is a senior in High School and in the process of applying to college.
Outside the SAT Cheering “Go Team!” “All things work together for good to them that love God.” Give up any misgivings or woulda, coulda, shoulda. God is working His purpose out as question proceeds to question. My son’s place and future are assured by his heavenly Father who alone anoints and appoints. The divine intelligence … Read more
As mentioned before, my painting teacher this year was Brooks Anderson. (The first photo below is of him.) He did a good job nurturing each of our “voices” and encouraging us “to look under our hood.” We had a lot of fun in this class and worked intensely too. Many times I laughed so hard … Read more
School is off to a start, albeit a somewhat rocky one. With so many online classes, and with the power outages due to Hurricane Irene on critical days of the first week (not to mention traveling to Michigan) we were put behind from the offset and are scrambling to catch up. Anyway, that should iron … Read more
I bought this outstanding book for my niece’s birthday tomorrow. It is a picture book that takes the statistics of the world’s people and extrapolates them into understandable numbers. So if the world were a hundred person village, what are the ages of the people in the village? What are their religions, who has fresh … Read more
Today I went to the High School at Home Conference in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It was a 4.5 hour drive from here, and I went with a friend who is also a homeschooling mom. We left at 4:15am and returned at 11:30pm, having shared a full and enlightening day. This is the first time either of … Read more
I’ve recently been speaking with some wonderful women about both parenting and homeschooling. This has underscored for me some differences in my approaches, which are serving me well. And while parenting three teenagers is not without its bumps and exasperating moments, I am not tearing my hair out, nor throwing up my hands, as some … Read more
I just dropped my son off at Crystal Lake Camp for two weeks of “Leadership Training” (extended canoe, backpacking & solo trips) to be immediately followed by four weeks as a counselor in training. (My youngest daughter is at camp right now in Colorado – mountain biking and white water rafting – so my husband … Read more
One of the advantages of parenting (let alone homeschooling!) is you learn so much! Below are words my 16 year old son is learning that I did not know. Do you know any of these? If you know any, you know more than me! obloquy: a verbal condemnation or abuse of a person or thing … Read more
Here is an idea whose time has come. I thought most people knew about Khan Academy, but I’ve realized they don’t. So this is for those of you that don’t know what you are missing! This is good internet education that is FREE. Salman Khan, with his three degrees from MIT and a Harvard MBA, … Read more