Knowre Online Math: Help for High School Math
I have a long standing, not always positive relationship with homeschooling math. This isn’t because I dislike it or am not good at it, but more because each of my children are so different and have needed different things at various points throughout our years of homeschooling. I used Singapore Math with all my children […]
Montessori Homeschooling – The Early Years
While there are many families that use the Montessori homeschooling method throughout their years of homeschooling, it is more often found in the preschool and elementary years. For the purpose of our discussion today we will refer to these early Montessori years as “Montessori Time”. Flashback to Montessori Time Montessori time is one of the […]
Seeking Positive Gymnastics
Recently the weight of my actions as well as others at our gym has been weighing on my mind. Throughout Chloe’s gymnastic years I have already made my share of mistakes. From being that parent complaining loudly enough in the lobby for other patrons to hear, as well as staff, but not being the parent […]
It’s the Little Things Thursday
[image width=”300″ height=”200″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Button-Logo3.jpg[/image] Last week for “It’s the Little Things Thursday”, it was all about Chloe. This week it is Jayden I want to talk about. Over the past year and a half, Chloe and Jayden have been taking a home school art class together. Their teacher, Leslie, has been awesome! Not […]
Blog with Integrity ~ Or Better Yet, Live Your Life With It!
By displaying the Blog with Integrity badge or signing the pledge, I assert that the trust of my readers and the blogging community is important to me. I treat others respectfully, attacking ideas and not people. I also welcome respectful disagreement with my own ideas. I believe in intellectual property rights, providing links, citing sources, […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook ~ April 13th, 2010
Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: April 13th , 2010… Outside my window…I see blue sky and sunshine and hear the birds chirping. The grass is newly aerated and seeded so hopefully in a couple of weeks we will have a fuller, greener lawn. I am thinking…that I despise using my computer right now because the […]
27 Don’ts for Parents of Gymnasts
Someone from our gym found this article on the 27 Don’ts For Parents of Gymnasts that they were kind enough to share with us. I am posting it here, first and foremost as a reminder to me, (and hopefully for other parents as well) to always be positive and supportive, and keep the long term […]
Book Review – Happiness Key
It has been since January that I have done one of these posts. My reading time has been spent consuming Gone with the Wind and I did a series of posts about that book, separate from my standard “Book Review” post. After finishing Gone with the Wind I needed to go a little lightweight in […]
Flashback Friday ~ Brothers
We have many, many, many photo albums in bins that I do not have access to from before my digital camera days. Joey has just started emptying them out and scanning them so that I/we/our whole family will have access to them. Thus, I get to take a walk down memory lane in new time […]
It’s the Little Things Thursday
[image width=”300″ height=”200″ frame=”simple” align=”left”]http://www.startsateight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Button-Logo3.jpg[/image] This week for my It’s the Little Things Thursday my focus is on Chloe. She has done multiple “little things” over this past Easter weekend that stand out for me. To start out with, over the past few weeks she has spent countless hours locked in her room working on […]
The Simple Woman’s Daybook ~ April 6th, 2010
Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: April 6th, 2010… Outside my window…”Gray day, everything is gray. I watch, but nothing moves today.” Or how about “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day”. Or if you were Ava this morning “It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring. He fell out of bed and bumped […]
Flashback Friday ~ Easter Egg Hunt Edition
Easter is here and thus the time honored tradition of Easter Egg Hunts. From Chloe at age 10 to Ava at 3, all of my children are looking forward to this. In fact, since last year we have had those plastic eggs floating around the house because Jayden and Ava hide them for each other […]