Claude is helping make the entrées for about three nights worth of suppers, Béla is pounding away one last practice of “Jukebox Hero”, and my god these people need some serious ablutions because today they earned their yellow belts in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. They are proud. They are also still hoping we get some read-out-loud time…
Category: life skills
controlling the elements
The kids are out with friends at the park (I wonder how many hours they have logged at that park in their lifetimes so far? Frankly, there’s people keeping better count than I am) but I kinda can’t wait for them to get home because WAIT UNTIL BELA SEES THIS WATER BILL! IT’S NEVER BEEN…
various (incomplete)
I know this kid who suddenly had a passionate desire to see the water bill be lower than it’s ever been. We talked to our neighbors and ours is, and has for years, been ridiculous compared to the friends around us. Béla’s very vested in this and he suggested that the fact that the third…
spring rolls (eventually)
We hear that the the groundhog did not see his shadow today and we will have an early spring. After a week of a household cold, and incredibly cold temperatures, it was nice to have an upturn for my birthday — which we began early last night just as an insurance policy, with a lot…
internship
We’ve been working for months now to find out ways that the kids can help out — during school hours — at various Mighty Writers locations in Philly, whether in reading to toddler-aged children, helping to design, print and distribute flyers, or — as they did today — transcribe workshop writing assignments to computer from…
Revelations in Role-play of an Autistic, First-time D&D Dungeon Master
Around the end of November 2017, I offered to be the Dungeon Master for a Dungeons & Dragons group comprised of local and homeschooled children. While I had never played D&D before, I had long been interested in D&D culture and gladly accepted, and set forth on reading loads of articles packed with tips, and…
day of the davids
We would have thought it was a bit less than a week ago that we got “back” to homeschooling (although the fact is, we did a LOT of learning over the holidays), but we didn’t get back to any sort of “routine” last week, due to extremes of weather — massive snow storms, ice, lots…
summer’s final exam (part one)
This has been Claude and Béla’s most independent summer ever, and I’m not second guessing when I say it has had moments in it that I am sure they will remember for their entire lives. (Or, in Béla’s case, never remember, due to his concussion.) Yes, this summer of independence did land us with two…
so for those few weeks we WEREN’T writing anything down in a spreadsheet…
I was also deeply sad during the first few weeks of ending the schoolyear. The absence of that much close time with my children was a much bigger loss to me than I expected and I missed them desperately. Also, they were right here and I wanted to get the hell away from them. Lots…
notes at a lecture; a musical lemonade stand
While it has not worked that well in the past — and therefore has not happened as often as we had planned (although it had been an integral part of me agreeing to homeschool…) the kids went to Indy Hall, Ben’s co-working space, today. I had them fully armed with a LOT of curriculum stuff…
is it homeschooling?
Is it homeschooling when you find a fifty-dollar bill on the street? Yup. If you were out on your own with your brother, checking to see if anyone was home at your friends’ place, and then headed to the playground (three independent street-crossings). Is it homeschooling when you create a new industrial design for your…
there is a field.
Beyond the ideas of right and wrong, there is a field. I will meet you there. — Rumi Beyond common sense there is irrational screaming about a hole in one’s leggings when stuck at the top of the fence. I will walk away from you there. — Me Actually, we have been using a written…
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