Do Life Right

A big part of my children’s lives are movies. We’ve met many homeschooling families who either don’t allow movies at all into their children’s lives, restrict movies to only “educational ones”, allow only one movie per week (or other predetermined timeframe), or at a minimum restrict the content of the movies the children watch [...]

After my family and I noted that the same pointy mountain kept popping up in various movies and television shows that we were watching, we started to wonder where it was. You know the one, it’s in every series of Star Trek except DS9, Roswell, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, and many many more [...]

My kids love 3-D things. They’ve been having a lot of fun with Neave Anaglyph. It’s a website where you can “doodle in 3D”. Put on your 3D glasses and have some fun!
Some more fun free online games to check out are:

Sand Game (This highly fun game is a perpetual favorite here. We [...]

Contrary to television shows, people cannot be replaced by machines!
Computers are not capable of original thought. Humans are. Computers, and their software, only do as they are programmed. They cannot do more, or less, than the human(s) in charge of them have designed and programmed them to do. The world [...]

We’re huge Indiana Jones fans around here; we all loved the new movie (I thought it was the best one yet) and we’ve been working our way through The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Early Years, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume Two - The War Years, and The Adventures [...]

From the cute little girl on the front to the brilliant long lists of ideas (and glorious lists of great picture books), Child of Wonder: Nurturing Creative and Naturally Curious Children (Common Ground Press 2008) by Ginger Carlson, M. A. Ed. had me hooked. This is a book I wish I could have been [...]

My youngest daughter just had a Parent Trap movie fest, so I have the clever “Let’s get together” song in my head as I write this blog post. We could have a real good ti-ime.

Do you know what your words mean? Pima.
I live in Pima County, Arizona. In researching [...]

The following post is a guest post from my 11 year old Always Unschooled daughter, Zoë. This is her very first written report and she’d like to share it with the world. She wrote it for the Harry Potter class that I wrote about in my “My Unschooled 11 Year Old — Right [...]

Science Fiction, String Theory, and Star Trek
What do these have in common? God. Yes, God, with a capital G.
I’ve heard the comments directed at Trekkies: “Oh, what geeks,” and “They just dress up and live in a little pretend world, how adolescent.” How banal that Trekkies are mistreated and misunderstood so! [...]

Every parent could benefit from being better connected with their child (no matter the child’s age).  Here are some simple ideas to get you started.

Do something unexpectedly nice for your child that you don’t normally do. Does he love video games so much he barely eats? Make him food and take it to [...]