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Traditional schools are for parents who are scared
A school in Manhattan just announced they would stop giving homework to kids in kindergarten through fifth grade. The letter home to parents said kids should play instead. And added, “In fact, you may...
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Teachable moment
Scene at the Grocery Store: Neighbor: I hear you’re not in school anymore! Nine-year-old: Yah. My mom’s teaching me. Neighbor: Oh really! That’s nice. Nine-year-old: Not really. She’s not really...
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What common practice will horrify our kids someday?
The title of today’s post was a title of one of the sections of Time magazine’s issue about questions. My first thought when I read the article was my mom’s answer when I asked her why she married my...
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Don’t teach kids to do what they don’t want to do
Nicholson Baker is one of the first writers who blew my mind in the minimalism department. His first novel, The Mezzanine, was about a guy who went up an escalator. That’s it. His next book, Vox, was...
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Are you a native homeschooler or an immigrant?
We tried out a new piano teacher. And as an introduction to the teacher’s studio, he sent me the recital program from last spring. One thing I noticed is that each student’s age, school and grade are...
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Moneyballing Homeschool
My first encounter with moneyball was in high school. The boy I had a crush on was playing fantasy baseball so I played too. I had four months to teach myself everything about baseball before the...
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The American Academy of Pediatrics are treacherous sellouts
In the middle ages in Europe, animals were held accountable for human laws, and many animals were put on trial. The most common punishment was hanging, but there are records of more brutal versions of...
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Don’t bother teaching kids to take notes
I didn’t teach my kids handwriting. I assumed they would learn to write when they had things they wanted to say on paper. I assumed that would come soon. I have 50 volumes of handwritten diaries going...
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