No lessons this week since we're on holiday with the kiddos. We'll be visiting the outdoor classroom of Sea World, the zoo, the Mexican market, possibly Enchanted Springs, and loads of time with our cousins!
Here is the first of a 3-part series my husband came across online. It's quite long but I found it very poignant.
Confessions of a home-schooler
Some bits I loved...
"After various tense conversations with friends, family members and strangers, Leslie and I have concluded that earnest, heartfelt discussion of exactly how we're approaching our kids' education and why we're doing it is a bad idea. For reasons I can about halfway understand, other parents often seem to feel attacked by our eccentric choices. I guess this is what it's like to be a vegan, or a Mennonite convert. I can certainly remember having a weirdly defensive response ("You know, I hardly ever eat red meat"), one where I reacted to someone else's comment about themselves as if it were really all about me."
"As Alicia Bayer, a Minnesota home-schooler and blogger who's one of Leslie's online mentors, puts it, "People think we're all conservative Christians who hate the government and wear denim jumpers."
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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