If you use, or are interested in using Hooked on Phonics then I’ve written about its effectiveness on several occasions. You can check them out here (How I Homeschool, Anybody Can do it With Hooked on Phonics!, Hooked on Phonics Products (video), Reading Progress: 5 year old Alan, Hooked on Phonics: Master Reader (with [...]
“Men seek retreats for themselves – in the country, by the sea, in the hills – and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time you want, to retreat into yourself. No retreat offers someone more quiet and relaxation [...]
Poetry, for me, isn’t something I go out of my way to read. It’s enigmatic where I prefer bluntness – prose. I don’t like to guess at the meaning of phrases. My favorite author is Ernest Hemingway whose writing is famously direct. However, my resistance to it notwithstanding, poetry is something with which we should [...]
What’s the matter with in-laws? Mine like me, and my mom, mom, and dad really like Mely, too (mom, mom isn’t a typo. Read about that here). The only whiff of a problem I ever had with an in-law was 6 years ago when my father in-law called me a girl. He’s a great guy, [...]
I started learning how to be a homeschooling parent the day I gave the boys their first school lessons. But, even after that first lesson it took months to create a working curriculum. I was clueless about how much time I should spend per day teaching, on which subjects to concentrate first and, most [...]
Sports! Mely decided to go with a sports theme today. We watched The Sandlot last night, and both the boys are fighting over who gets to color the baseball one. I guess they don’t realize I can print out more than one. Anyway, enjoy these and let us know if you want a specific [...]
It isn’t going to win me any prizes for low fat cooking, but it’s been the only cookbook I consistently go back to time and again for hearty, feel good food. It’s the Longfellow’s Wayside Inn Cookbook. The Wayside Inn is the oldest continuously operating inn in America (according to what I’ve always been [...]
The boys, and I, have begun learning calligraphy, and a few weeks ago I went on an expedition for teaching materials. I thought they would be easy to find – but I was wrong. I did find a handwriting workbook at Barnes & Noble which, for lack of a better solution, we immediately started [...]
We had stupid cartoons when we were kids (He-Man being a prime example). The mid 80′s were a dead zone of educational programming. MTV still played music and was awesome – but not educational. Cheap Japanese cartoon imports like Voltron and homegrown stupidity like the aforementioned He-Man made the cartoon programming of that era [...]
That’s right. I got interviewed by Chris Lewis at Dad of Divas. Every week, or something on that order, Chris has been interviewing a dad who has some influence in the community in which he operates. I am one of many quality dad bloggers, and I’m honored to be given the chance to appear on [...]
The fertility rate in the United States is steady at 2.1 kids per woman (it’s slightly higher among immigrants though). That’s at replacement level. However, women in the poor countries of Guinea-Bissau and Liberia can expect to have between 7 and 8 children in a lifetime. There are a lot of factors that go [...]
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