Posted by Heather on Mar 11, 2010 in
children,
dreams,
geekery I don’t talk about Aidan’s education much. We are using the state funded k12 program; it’s a home-based charter school that gives us an amazing amount of flexibility with our schedules. This morning I was reading BuzzMachine, a blog by Jeff Jarvis, when I came upon this statement in TedxNYed: This is Bullshit:
We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers. Life is a beta.
I can’t begin to wrap my mind around the idea of the amount of information at my fingertips. What I’m doing at Home Ec 101 isn’t creating information, it’s simply listening to the questions people are asking and distilling the information into a form some people find more palatable.
Do I know what the kids will end up doing or being?
No.
I want to teach them to find the information they need, to vet it, process it, and perhaps share it in a new form.
Posted by Heather on Mar 9, 2010 in
children 
Posted by Heather on Jan 9, 2010 in
boys,
children,
gender,
girls I’ve read a lot of advice to parents and most of it has been utter crap, with the boys.
With Ellie the little magic tricks all seem to work. Want her to lower her voice, I simply have to whisper. If I say she needs to be gentle because something hurts, she gets very concerned and wants to give me a kiss.
The boys? It’s always been a matter of enforcing boundaries to keep them from running pell mell over everything, destroying themselves, the house, and people’s opinions in the process.
I was recently recognized in the grocery store as the lady from church with three kids. She was very kind, but I had to wonder how hard she had to work to not say the crazy lady from church with three kids.
Yes, I am procrastinating.
Posted by Heather on Oct 28, 2009 in
children 
Tags: Wordless Wednesday
Posted by Heather on Aug 16, 2009 in
children,
family life,
girls,
gratitude 
Happy birthday, baby!
Posted by Heather on Jun 7, 2009 in
children,
family life,
gratitude This is one of the many reasons I wanted to move home.
Posted by Heather on May 26, 2009 in
children,
family life,
gratitude Some would say we are slow. We’re going to go with efficient. The Solos kids have been baptized. Tim and I are breathing a great, big sigh of relief.
Posted by Heather on Apr 21, 2009 in
children,
dreams,
family life,
girls Sometimes you don’t need words to tell the story. To think, this is only the beginning.
Posted by Heather on Apr 1, 2009 in
children Mark and Aidan were arguing over some aspect of putt-putt when Mark shrieked, “I was born to play miniature golf.”
Last night, Ellie and I were watching television and there was a train. Like any mom I told her trains say, “Chugga chugga chugga chugga, choo choo.”
She looked at me quizzically and replied, “Socky socky socky socky, shoe shoe?”
“Yes, baby, that’s exactly right.”
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We’re still in Myrtle Beach having a blast thanks to MyrtleBeachHotels.com
Posted by Heather on Mar 26, 2009 in
children,
dreams,
family life Seven kids, seven days. Tim’s cousins were in town and we were glad to have them. Even though the kids were good, that was exhausting. It’s the constant movement and the noise that wears me down. I’d like to crawl into bed for two days with some good books and bad TV, but I don’t think it’s an option.
