Parental Ramblings
The Importance Of Play
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 … Continue reading
Time Really Has Gotten Away From Us
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 … Continue reading
Mama’s Getting Schooled
Riding in the back of a taxi in Cancun, Mexico in December, we discussed the idea of new year’s resolutions with D (C and B were in a separate taxi with aunt Lizzie and Uncle Tom). D said he wanted to learn to read this year. Pretty good goal. Daddy is trying to give up … Continue reading
Crafts
I have a friends who has a collage degree in fiber arts. Not fine arts, but fiber arts. She talks about how crafts must be both artistic and useful; that is what distinguishes them from decorative arts. Gorgeous, complex quilts, for instance, are still intended to be used. Crafts are fantastic for kids for that … Continue reading
. . . Unschooling Voices #12
A fantastic conglomeration of blog entries on unschooling, Unschooling Voices comes out monthly. Whether I am presenting an opportunity to expand one’s view of unschooing or showing how lazy I am by merely posting a link to another’s website that I didn’t get around to writing a blog entry for is merely a matter of … Continue reading
Back To Regular Life
Interrupting my next planned blog about our second week in Mexico, just to keep up with real life. Most of our free time since returning has been spent trying to get some of our 2000 photos sorted and uploaded to flickr; the first three days of vacation are now in our gallery on the blog … Continue reading
Mexico, DÃa Seises: Gran Gente y Templos Grandes
Chichen Itza: ancient Mayan city in the Yucatan Peninsula. Known for it’s large amazing Mayan pyramids and temples, we will probably best remember Chichen Itza for the people we met while staying nearby. Poor C evidently caught his brother’s illness and started vomiting in the night. The difference between the two is that one is … Continue reading
Tote Bags . . . again
Having finally finished the tote bags for the craft swap, I commented that the problem with projects like this is that about the time you really start to get the hang of things you are done. So with the sewing machine and serger still out on the dining room table, I decided to make some … Continue reading
Dear Cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents,
Dear Cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents, We talk to you often. Love it in fact. You tell us you read the blog. There is this funny little button that says Comments. You – especially hip, young, computer-savvy cousins – should be able to figure out how this little feature works. We’d love to her from … Continue reading
Fabric, fabric everywhere and not a thing to wear
I foolishly signed up for a craft swap. Last swap I made jewelry, which is something I know how to make and I had a lot of the supplies already on hand. This time I figured I should make something else since most of the swappers were the same. Big mistake, huge. First of all … Continue reading
