Last month our family started watching Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay. Before I say anything else I need to say we’re tolerating the language. The show airs on BBC America channel and they have a different set of acceptable language on that television station. They do use the words sh**, bu...

I have been getting help from others and giving help to other since my oldest was born in 1997. It started with a bang when my baby was newborn, as he struggled to breastfeed. He was hungry but he would not latch on properly. I had read books and watched videos and took one hospital-based class so I...

I heard this homeschooling tip before I saw it play out in my own experience. I have since found this to be true several times. I’m having one of those moments right now. The tip is: Use your homeschooling curriculum, don’t let it use you. Otherwise stated, it is:Homeschooling curriculum is a to...

It was time for our cats to have their annual physical. The kids came with me since it was a daytime appointment. Each insisted on carrying one cat carrier and assisting. It was really nice. While sitting in the waiting room my eight year old son was looking at our pet carrier. Next to the brand nam...

Soon after Judy Aron, a Connecticut homeschool mom who blogs at Consent of the Governed blogged about how the recession may affect homeschoolers she was contacted by a journalist and interviewed. The resulting article can be read here: Amid hard times, homeschooling families persist by David Crary J...

The game Braintelligent, made by Lonpos, model 84T is our family’s game of the week. I learned of this while looking at the scratch and dent sale items on the homeschool supply company, Timberdoodle’s site. They had a damaged game on large discount so I splurged on it. This game is right up my o...

The Carnival of Homeschooling edition #166 was published today at Nerd Family. I have an entry in this blog carnival. This Carnival provides a lot of homeschool-related reading. Take a look! If you have a blog or a website and write about homeschooling I encourage you to consider submitting an entry...

Deborah Markus, owner of Secular Homeschooling magazine reviewed "Einstein Adds a New Dimension", a science history book by Joy Hakim in issue #5 of Secular Homeschooling (read online review here). Well I finally found a person who writes longer and more detailed reviews than I do. I have a comment ...

Today I continue with the project of moving books to different shelves and getting rid of books I'm done using. I am doing a reevaluation of the books I own to see if they are still useful to me or not. Or am I keeping them as a museum history of my life? I have made the hard decision to take the bo...

The next chapter in our family’s life is that my younger son has begun speech therapy. I had been thinking of having my younger son evaluated for about a year. It was not a pressing issue, not a high priority. This was because a lot of times I didn’t hear the speech issues then sometimes I would...