Eclectic Parent

D has his one day of school today so only the little two were home. There was an event on permiculture
going on at the Farm at South Mountain and Friday was kids day. Thought we’d go have lunch and then check it out. Kids had fun at lunch; some people we know showed up as […]

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After gymnastics today, D and I went to Home Depot. As we left, we drove by the big sign and ended up with a very fantastic conversation.
D: Why does that say The Home Depot?
me: Because that’s the name of the store. We just usually call it Home Depot.
D: But it’s not the only […]

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So I have about five drafts of posts I haven’t gotten done lately. Needs get them written . . . now on with the post.
Today was park day for our homeschool group. We went with three kids and came home with five. On the car ride home I heard the best vocabulary building discussion.
child 1: […]

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Got some new videos and pictures up - finally. December 28th is up in the photo gallery (took menu bar) or at our flickr page. Still have about three days of the 2-week vacation to edit and post, just too busy with real life to get it done quickly.
Night Swing is the kids in the […]

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To follow up on my sampler I’m evidently stitching in my head (Tuesday was library day, Wednesday was the zoo), we finally did get to a field trip. We headed to the zoo on Wednesday morning planning on a quick visit before C’s 1 o’clock gymnastics class. As soon as we entered we saw […]

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As I was thinking ‘Tuesday was library day’ I felt like I was planning to stitch a sampler. After Monday’s decision to go on a field trip that never occurred, we decided to go Tuesday instead. Well Tuesday started out slow, as days frequently do here, and we started at the library to return books. […]

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NPR just ran a piece on the importance of unstructured play for children. The concept is often discussed in attachment parenting circles and certainly by the proponents of unschooling, but it was nice to hear it covered by mainstream media. The idea is given lip service relatively often in the mainstream populace - ‘children learn […]

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Not ours. But we have spent a fair amount of time at friend’s birthday parties. We just uploaded some photos from a while ago and realized that we’d been to several lately. One homeschool friend had a big party with whole families invited. Another friend we’ve known since moving here had a big […]

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Last Friday we were supposed to be on the school tour for the Society for Creative Anachronism’s Estrella War. SCA are the middle ages/renaissance reenactment people and war is their big gathering of many groups. It’s big huge fun. We went two years ago and had a blast. Tours of a working blacksmith, knights and […]

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So today is President’s Day. It isn’t something we really pay attention to, but I had planned on heading to the library with the kids today and remembered it was closed. So I started thinking of all the other outings we could have. We used to do a weekly field trip with friends but one […]

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