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The Boys’ Music Recital June ‘10
Another family post.
Here is the video from the boys’ violin recital.
Homeschooling, Just One Reason
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.
Parenting Aside
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.
Happy birthday, baby!
Baptized
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.
A Story of a Girl and a Car
Sometimes you don’t need words to tell the story. To think, this is only the beginning.
