How to homeschool JUST LIKE ME
Forty-eight hours from now our schooling year begins. I will have one young son hopping on the big yellow cracker box, headed to a year of fourth grade, and another that will need to be dynamited out of bed to …
{Guest post} How to find a job after (or while) homeschooling
Today I’m thrilled to have a guest post from the very awesome Pamela Price of Red, White, and Grew and How to Work and Homeschool. Her first book, How to Work and Homeschool, has just been published by Gifted Homeschoolers Forum …
How to take super sensitive kids to a theme park and still be sane at the end of the day
This morning I posted the following over at the Laughing at Chaos Facebook page: Taking the boys on a long-promised trip to Six Flags Great America today. I’m trying to be excited about it, but I’m not really looking forward …
Start with compassion
Us and them. That’s actually the title of a back to school article in Chicago Parent, about “talking to your kids about special needs.” There are so many things wrong with that title I don’t even know where to start. …
Parenting without a net
I hate being patronized. Treated with a gentle smile and empty eyes and insincere words. It happens in only one area of my life, because as a flutist and teacher and writer and volunteer I am treated with more respect. …
Book review: How to Work and Homeschool
In the last year or so, I’ve become an unofficial mentor of sorts to parents of gifted kids. I have a couple-three computer or phone conversation a month, talking to parents, passing along resources, commiserating, gently suggesting that maybe homeschooling …
Just a little SENG-over
You know how when, if you go out of town, you come back further behind than you thought possible? Like you’re gone four days and suddenly you’re four weeks behind? It’s some kind of screwed up time-space continuum, as though …
The Henny Penny Challenge recap
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong in my life. Back at the beginning of June I was challenged by a dear friend to pull my psyche out of the sinkhole into which I had shoved it to suffer …
{GHF Blog Hop} Homeschooling With My Other Half
Today’s post is part of the July 2013 Gifted Homeschoolers Forum blog hop. This month’s topic is Homeschooling With/Without a Partner. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This past Saturday Tom and I celebrated seventeen years of happily ever after perfectly imperfect wedded bliss marriage. Seventeen years …
8 Activities to Enjoy This Summer With Your Gifted Kid
Have you been enjoying summer? You realize it’s practically over now, yes? Summer over, Jen? Are you insane? Summer just started! Yes friends, I said practically over. Let’s face it. Tomorrow is the Fourth of July here in the States, …