My oldest turns 7 in a little over a week. Where has the time gone? He is still riding in a carseat with a 5 pt. harness. I just moved the harness straps on his Regent to the highest slots a couple of weeks ago, so he still has plenty of room in his carseat. [...]
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the five step test…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boosters, carseats, five step test on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
sugar would not eat it…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children's books, consensual living, curious george, emily jenkins, non-coercive parenting, sugar would not eat it on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last year I had an epiphany concerning children’s books – specifically about Curious George. Since then, I’ve viewed many children’s books differently.
A few weeks ago we checked out the book Sugar Would Not Eat It by Emily Jenkins. I think I inwardly groaned when I saw the book in our bin of library books at [...]
the black book of colors…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged braille, children's books, consensual living, the black book of colors on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We recently checked out The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin. This is a wonderful book about the experience of color rather than the visual impact of color. The book is written from the point of view of a blind boy whose friend has described different colors to him. All of the pages are [...]
cider mill trip…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cider mill, Halloween, hayride, jack-o'lantern, peaceful living, pumpkin painting on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, we went to another cider mill yesterday. This was an actual field trip with one of our local homeschool groups. The mill wasn’t very organized. They didn’t have our field trip written down and they changed the price on us. However, we still made the best of it. The kids sampled different types of [...]
invented spelling….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged consensual living, invented spelling, reading, unschooling on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We are an unschooling family. We don’t press any agenda on our children’s learning but encourage them to follow their own interests. Even many child-led homeschoolers will exclaim that there are certain things your children just have to learn and which need to be taught. As unschoolers, we disagree. I’ve really enjoyed watching my children [...]
with friends like this…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Books, consensual living, friends, lunch with daddy, peaceful living on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was our chiro day. Normally my husband drives from work and joins us at the tail end of our family appointment for his adjustment. Afterward, we drive and have lunch out with him. It’s a nice little treat for our family to have lunch with daddy on a day he works. Yesterday, my husband [...]
and sometimes you just have to throw your plans out the window…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boys growing hair out, department of motor vehicles, department of revenue, haircuts, maternity pants, Motherhood Maternity, Old Navy, replacement license plates, stolen license plates, WHO health code on formula on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After posting this morning about having a nice relaxing day at home, my husband called me to let me know that someone had stolen his license plates. Ugh. I told him to call and file a police report while I called the DMV (or here, the DOR) to find out what we needed. It seems [...]
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