Eclectic Parent

After 7 years, 11 months and 1 week, it finally happened. D lost a tooth. He’s been waiting since friends and cousins started losing teeth around their 5th birthdays. Every dentist visit, he’s asked when they think he’ll loose a tooth. Every time a friend loses one, he asks when he’ll finally lose one. He […]

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Today was field trip day and one of the moms from our home school group organized a trip to Whole Foods market. We are always happy to see some of our friends and to getting to explore new places always makes it more interesting. We had two tour guides that were glad […]

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I came across an article today from the New York Times called A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash. It’s one of those articles that reminds me of all the reasons we prefer to homeschool. And yes, I did just write that we had given the children the choice […]

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Today we started with some books I picked up a few days ago. We’ve been selling books back to the used bookstore, so I bought The Grapes of Math and the Math Curse with some of the credit. After figuring our how many quarts in a gallon, pints in a quart, etc, it asked how […]

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Having been on the road so long we were completely out of everything upon returning. Grandma had gotten us some groceries but we still had to go out a few days later. We were totally out of sync though. Had bread, ran out of cheese. Had veggies but no meat. We finally did a big […]

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The boys decided they wanted to attend not one, but two, homeschool programs. So Tuesday was another first day. Eagleridge is much more academic than Casa Vida, which is almost all enrichment. We’ll see what they think. It’s a shorter day, but two days a week. When they had asked for the one day of […]

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For a long time we had an idea of what the kids should be learning, general interest stuff, and pointed it out to them. They’d either start a conversation or not. Last year we went more unschooly and really let them get into - or not get into - whatever they wanted. While I do […]

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I remember school starting in the beginning of September. Or, if you are Harry Potter 1st September. But Arizona schools now start from the end of July to the middle of August. Yes, when it’s hot. Actually, HOT. How does this affect the homeschoolers? The boys are both going to Casa Vida this year. It’s […]

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Getting ready to leave the Irish Inn in Shamrock, TX. It’s a mandatory stop whenever daddy travels cross country. Just so happened to get there about 10 PM last night. Everyone is tired, stops are frequent (”I have to go potty”) and taking forever and we’re only managing about 7 - 8 hours drive […]

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We’re heading back home. Never did get all the posts up about Connecticut and New York. The drive home is definitely not quite as happy as the drive out. On the way we stopped, looked around and had cousins to look forward to. On the way back they’re tired of travel and been away from […]

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