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Success follows failure – and persistence
I'm cheating this week and reprinting a slice of the advice I gave when I presented the commencement address at CORE at Camptonville Academy's graduation ceremony last week....
Baseball provides season of growth
The sun is setting over the field as a cool breeze blows across the bleachers. We sit with friends alternately talking and cheering. I want to burn this moment into my brain. The clink of the bat and the noise of the crowd fill my ears. A tear slips out of my eye and I blame it on the wind. I see be...
Mother's Day lessons
If you take a look at the advertisements, motherhood is all smiles and flowers and contentment. Now I am definitely a life-is-what-you-make-it kind of gal, and I find a great satisfaction in being a mother. However, I will be the first to tell you that motherhood has been filled with surprises, and ...
A new trend in college learning
"Why do you say we don't have money for pizza when you have money in your purse?" she asked, and the lesson was on....
No need to fear the Common Core
Someone asked me last week if the new Common Core standards for public education will affect homeschoolers. My response was a resounding: "Huh?" So I looked around and asked around and came to the conclusion that homeschooling and Common Core have a lot in common with dinner at my house....
To school at home: Privilege or fundamental right?
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."...
Daily life leads to new lessons
We have been learning about chromosomes in our homeschool recently. As often happens, our lessons are initiated by circumstance, and the curriculum is guided by life. After several family discussions, the boys brought their own questions to me one evening....
Learning at Home: Giving kids a head start
Years ago, a friend gave us some parenting advice. "Once you are outnumbered," he said, "it's really all the same." Brian and I, as parents, have been in the minority for quite a while....
The last one arrives ... again
Thirteen years and eight children ago, as we were preparing to adopt for the second time, Brian stood in out in the yard and told a Sacramento news reporter that our goal was to have 12 children. It was the first I'd heard of it....
Game day can also be educational
What sort of mother buys educational games for her children and passes them off as Christmas gifts? This one did, and it worked out even better than expected....
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