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Yes, My Kids Have Asked to go to School
And it was like being stabbed in the heart with the pretty blue math compass I bought him for 5th grade math! “… I just wanted to see what middle school is like and meet some new friends.” …I’m not protecting him. I’m providing him with an alternate route with which to emerge having lost none of himself.
Handwriting and Other Homeschool Torture Devices
Sometimes I just sit around thinking up ways I can provoke my kid’s groans and hissy fits, so I can make my day especially obnoxious, long and unbearable. A day filled with carefully calculated ways to be griped at and made to feel mean and overbearing. Because that is what it’s all about. Me making their lives miserable.
Homeschool: The Not so Expected First Year Expectations
…In fact don’t expect anything. Then you don’t have to feel like a failure if/when the following happens: …
Thank you to all who came out to my workshops and to socialize at my booth this year in TX!
The Homeschool Wager
“We wagered a second income on the notion that we could educate our children more effectively than the public-school system.
We wagered the need to fit into the world’s expectations on the belief that our children should look to us for social and moral guidance.
We wagered the ease and comfort of kid-free time on the belief that kids need family more than peers, love more than affirmation, and encouragement more than conformity.”
Jennifer Cabrera
Hifalutin Homeschooler
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