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[6 Sep 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Loving Math Because It’s Useful - Knitting

An excerpt about math from At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women who Knit Too Much by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.
“Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.” -Albert Einstein
I failed 10th grade math four times. I hate mathematics so much that the very thought of a return to it in any form is enough to make me want to run away to Belize, screaming all the way. It is a deeply bitter truth that knitting has math in it. Division to place increases, addition …

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[14 Aug 2010 | 5 Comments | ]
What If I’m Messing Everything Up?

We’ve all experienced it - that fear, in the middle of the night, that the decision to homeschool will ruin our kids. Here’s a trick to deal with homeschool fear and anxiety.

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[16 Jun 2010 | 11 Comments | ]
Video Games and Cocaine

Managing video games consumption is not equivalent to teaching our kids to stay away from cocaine.