Posted in Arizona, Tucson, Unschooling, books, censorship, homeschooling, movies, photographs, television by: Lisa
05 May
Photograph taken in Tucson, Arizona (west of I-10, near “A” Mountain), March 2008.
I’ve heard many parents say they limit their children’s television and movie viewing (both content and total “screen time“) because they are fearful their children will grow into zombie couch potatoes that essentially worship videos. It’s such an amazing sloth-like image, it [...]
Posted in Arizona, Tucson, books, curing diseases, education, empowerment, environmentalism, pets, vegan, vegetarian by: Lisa
04 May
This entire blog post is a direct quote announcement:
Lovin’ Spoonfuls is proud to help sponsor Dr. Nathan Winograd, former director of the San Francisco SPCA.
Most of us believe that there are too many cat and dogs around, not enough homes and that we are therefore forced to euthanize the “excess”. Dr. Winograd has implemented [...]
Posted in space by: Lisa
03 May
If you live in the United States or Canada, check out Satellite FlyBys to see what times you can view various shuttles. In a different country? Check out this NASA site. There are lots of interesting things to see in the sky every night. Very cool!
Here are more interesting space sites:
SpaceWeather.com
JackStarGazer.com
NASA.gov
Space.com
KEO.org [...]
Posted in Unschooling, education, empowerment, mindful parenting, space, television, zen by: Lisa
02 May
This could have been titled “Are you celebrating something special today?”
Twice in one day last week I was asked something similar to the above - once by a checkout lady and the next time by a waitress. Just what was my family doing? Having fun going about our normal day-to-day activities. We [...]
Posted in Unschooling, books, education, empowerment, mindful parenting, relationships by: Lisa
01 May
People learn in different ways. While I absolutely abhor labeling children, as a mother I’ve come to appreciate realizing that there are different EQUALLY VALUABLE ways of learning and being. All are correct, yet drastically different.
I’m a person who learns well from words. I read a lot and I absorb it. [...]