Posted in Journal on May 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Today was one of our peaceful days. No baseball or music practice — just the regular Wednesday visit from Aidan’s occupational therapist (OT). He was eager to show her his new DAFO (fitted orthopedic brace) with the motorcycles on the strap that we went to town to get yesterday. […]
Posted in Journal on May 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
ME, sitting in passenger seat of ancient Suburban, browsing through old Growing Without Schooling newsletter:
Hey, listen to this. It’s about a debate between some early homeschoolers and a representative of the NEA. The NEA rep is saying, “There is no way that a parent can teach in 2 hours per day what it […]
Posted in Journal on May 10th, 2006 No Comments »
This is a quote from John Holt’s essay called Every Waking Hour:
“Among the many things I have learned about children, learned by many, many years of hanging out with them, watching carefully what they do, and thinking about it, is that children are natural learners.
“The one thing we can be sure of, or surest of, […]
