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Angels, ninjas, to-do lists, and me 27 Aug 2013 | 05:53 am
I have a love-hate relationship with super-productive days like today. Love because, well duh, task ninja all day long. Hate because I just know a metric crapton of THIS MUST BE DONE NOW OR ANGELS NOT...
There’s a hole in my bucket list 26 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
Earlier this week a columnist for the Huffington Post wrote about her anti-bucket list, things she absolutely will never do. While I have written various Wanna Do lists over the years (build a house -...
Back to school, back to learning? 22 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
This was the first year in all the years I’ve thrown children into the education system that I wasn’t dying to drop kick them out the door to school. Summer ended far too quickly this year, and I didn...
How to homeschool JUST LIKE ME 19 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
Forty-eight hours from now our schooling year begins. I will have one young son hopping on the big yellow cracker box, headed to a year of fourth grade, and another that will need to be dynamited out ...
{Guest post} How to find a job after (or while) homeschooling 5 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
Today I’m thrilled to have a guest post from the very awesome Pamela Price of Red, White, and Grew and How to Work and Homeschool. Her first book, How to Work and Homeschool, has just been published b...
How to take super sensitive kids to a theme park and still be sane at the end of the day 4 Aug 2013 | 09:01 am
This morning I posted the following over at the Laughing at Chaos Facebook page: Taking the boys on a long-promised trip to Six Flags Great America today. I’m trying to be excited about it, but I’m n...
Start with compassion 2 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
Us and them. That’s actually the title of a back to school article in Chicago Parent, about “talking to your kids about special needs.” There are so many things wrong with that title I don’t even know...
Parenting without a net 31 Jul 2013 | 09:04 pm
I hate being patronized. Treated with a gentle smile and empty eyes and insincere words. It happens in only one area of my life, because as a flutist and teacher and writer and volunteer I am treated ...
Book review: How to Work and Homeschool 30 Jul 2013 | 06:27 pm
In the last year or so, I’ve become an unofficial mentor of sorts to parents of gifted kids. I have a couple-three computer or phone conversation a month, talking to parents, passing along resources, ...
Just a little SENG-over 25 Jul 2013 | 07:02 am
You know how when, if you go out of town, you come back further behind than you thought possible? Like you’re gone four days and suddenly you’re four weeks behind? It’s some kind of screwed up time-sp...
