What We’ve Got—Living Outside of Mainstream Parenting
There is a beautiful scene in a Roseanne episode, in which the Connor family is gathered at the school auditorium to witness son D.J.’s performance in the spelling bee. D.J.’s parents and siblings are...
View ArticleParental Intelligence Newsletter Picks
Bob Collier’s Parental Intelligence Newsletter is a source of encouragement, information, and guidance for any parent who wants to raise a thinking, caring, curious, and secure child. Every month, Mr....
View ArticleCarnival of Unschooled Life—December 2010 Edition
Go to life, not school. This is going to be the last carnival for a while—maybe a long while. Thanks to the confidence I’ve gained from living the unschooled life with my daughter, I’m embarking on a...
View ArticleMoving On
Then I’ve known this day was coming. This is my last post for The Expanding Life blog. Has life stopped expanding? Oh, no. But the current path (I’m writing a book!) leaves little time for blogging in...
View ArticleJust Do It
One of the times we "just did it." There’s a television commercial I’ve seen a lot lately. The product being advertised has something to do with arthritis relief, and the voice-over proclaims that “a...
View ArticleWhen Sleeping Was the Enemy
As I write this, my daughter sleeps. It is noon. My teenaged daughter is sleeping. She’s not home sick. She’s just home. She’s just sleeping. When I was her age, that would have been a crime. Can you...
View ArticleSupport the Carnival of Homeschooling
I love blog carnivals, and the Carnival of Homeschooling is very special to me because it’s the first blog carnival I ever met. We hit it off right away and have been friends for years now. This week’s...
View ArticleThe Things We Used To Do
. . . are good for us, it seems. Like watering the garden. When my daughter was a little girl, she loved being outside. One of the things I used to do while keeping her company was water the garden....
View ArticleThe Difference Between Knowing and Learning
The day after we took our daughter out of kindergarten to begin the homeschooling experiment that became the unschooling adventure that became the best possible lives the members of our family could...
View ArticleThe Maintenance Mom
Since becoming a mother, almost eighteen years ago, I’ve often thought about how to describe what I do all day. Lots of words come up, but the word I always come back to is maintenance. The apartment...
View ArticleStill Expanding, and Not Worrying
The last time I wrote posts for this blog was in 2011. Since then, I have been trying to focus on writing a book, and, three years in, I’m finally getting somewhere. I currently blog, about my writing...
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