http://www.justenoughblog.com Where Education and Parenting Collide Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:13:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2111 We've all experienced it - the overwhelming fear, often in the middle of the night, that homeschooling will ruin our kids. The fear that we forgot to teach them something. That realization that no, we're not perfect, not even close. Here's a trick to deal with homeschool fear and anxiety. ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2083 Recently, a fellow homeschooler posted a link to an article that explains that video games are like cocaine, to explain why they are extremely dangerous for children. Although I appreciate the sentiment - she wanted to protect her fellow homeschoolers - the article itself was not convincing. Any pleasure seeking activity in ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2071 When parents find themselves in a position to decide whether to send kids to school or to homeschool, it's pretty common that parents put "it's a lot of hard work" on the con side of homeschooling.  This is a response I gave to one mom who was trying to make ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2059 Are the kids in this picture homeschoolers? Imagine showing a video of a homeschool conference and telling the audience it was a video of a group of public schooled kids. Would they be thinking "They are so well socialized?" What about showing a video of public school kids and telling the ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2043 This is audio of the talk I gave today at the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society (the Onion). In this talk I parallel the reasons we chose not to have a religious doctrine with why we do not have an educational doctrine. There are questions at the end, which all delve deeper ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2039 If you're not a writer, don't write a book. So many people say they want to write a book, but what's stopping them is that they've never really written anything, and don't really know how to write. If that's the case, don't write a book. Do what you like to do, ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2025 What is the one thing you want to do today? Zenhabits tells us to kill our to-do list and to do the one thing that needs to get done today. The one thing that won't happen on its own (laundry and driving the kids around will happen whether they are on ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2017 It's been a little slow here, as I'm wrapping up my edits of Zenschooling, as well as working on the board for CHN. I can't dedicate a lot of time to formulating well-thought out posts. However, there is always time for quick links and quotes, which I have been putting up ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=2005 [Update: Tomorrow morning they will be showing a follow-up with Pat Farenga. Perhaps they shall redeem themselves?] Good Morning America did a piece this morning on unschooling. Not just any unschooling, but a radical unschooling. The first page of the online article was fairly straightforward and balanced, but on page two, we ... http://www.justenoughblog.com/?p=1992