Category: kids

  • Merry Christmas 2010

  • 10 Reasons Why We Home School

    Upon revealing that my wife and I home school our children, we find ourselves in heavy crossfire with an emphasis on us doing wrong by our kids. It’s interesting that the harshest attacks come from (1) single people, (2) childless people, (3) old people who grew up during an age where schools were still good,…

  • 5 Initially Wrongheaded (But Potentially Contextually Understandable) Reasons to Home School

    I was planning to post this after my 10 reasons to home school, and even after my 5 stupid reasons to opt out of home school in favor of public school, but I faced another problem. What if home schooling parents started offering their opinions of what they thought were good reasons to opt out…

  • 5 Stupid Reasons Not To Home School (and Do Public School Instead)

    In defensive discussions justifying my parental rights and educational choices for my children, I often find myself repeating my lists of reasons.  I have 10 solid reasons why we home-school, which I was going to post today, but then I had an internal struggle. What if people (as they sometimes do) started offering some responses…

  • Interview With Sy 2009

    This seems to be Kid week. We’ve done two interview with Josias (link here) and we figured we would do one this year, now that he’s in first grade.

  • Interview With Elayna 2009

    We did an interview with Elayna a year ago. Now that she’s reached the ripe age of 4, we figured to ask her some of the questions again.

  • Sy’s Poems

    Yesterday’s post consisted of  things that Sy banged out without much more than five minutes of thought. Essentially, they were creative outlets for his random insanity. I also wanted to post some of his endeavors which he did take time to think about, and even wrote a second (neater) draft to get it right. What…

  • Sy’s Essays

    Every now and then my Son does something that gets him in trouble, usually on account of him being insanely hyperactive while being on the verge of a migraine. At these times I try to find a way to both calm him down and redirect his energies. Usually this consists of me telling him to…

  • Weird Kiddo Convo: The Play

    Here’s a weird conversation the kids had today which I just had to save.

  • Interview With Elayna

    So, Elayna, how old are you?three. How old is mommy?I don’t know.