The governor of California just signed a law making it very hard for parents to send kids to school without vaccines. So, it turns out that if you want to send your kids to public school, you have to give up control over medical decisions.
I stopped to check on my son’s computer because responsible parents know vaguely what their kids are doing online. But also, most of the time when I look at what kids are doing online, I learn something shocking.
This is a guest post from Sarah Faulkner. She is a homeschooling mom in Washington state. She has five kids, ages 13, 11, 9, 5, and 2. I grew up an only child and until about six months ago I thought I was an introvert. But really, it’s my mother who’s a severe introvert, and my confusion […]
Melissa sent me an essay from the New Yorker titled I Switched to a Standing Desk and You Should Too. The guy writes about how the standing desk has changed his life and solved so many of his problems and everyone should do it.
I am leery of people saying that kids need teachers. But here are three instances where I sort of like the idea. 1. Train kids for jobs that don’t exist. Sixty-five percent of today’s kids will have jobs that don’t exist today. So there is little point in training them to do the jobs we […]
The name of the course is, Be Your Real Self Without Feeling Frustrated. It includes four days of on-demand video sessions and email-based course materials. Sign up now. My driver, Carla, is an INFJ. I probably spend more time with her than I do with anyone else, so I focused really hard on being an expert on her type because […]
This is a guest post by Lehla Eldridge. Her blog is Unschooling the Kids, and that’s a photo of her kids with a Workaway visitor. Lehla’s family lives in Italy. Workaway is a website that’s aim is to help people who are travelling to find a place to stay for free in exchange for helping their hosts. By […]
Kate Keyhoe is a professor of American literature and creative writing. With her husband, she homeschools her daughter. I’m supposed to be writing right now – not this, some bloggy letter to Penelope Trunk but really writing, as in poems or lyric essays or a think piece on the last avant garde art installation I saw.
I like this photo because it’s from when I was in preschool, and my experience of preschool was pretty good. I went to a daycare center for families that had some sort of problem. This was in the early 1970s, when my mom was programming with punch cards and her job counted as a family […]
The productivity industry is huge. Companies spend billions of dollars training employees to be more productive, tips and tactics are common cocktail party chatter, and even universities are teaching productivity tools as a way to differentiate themselves.