It Takes Time to Get to the Future
"Roman wasn't built in a day."I think that's how they put it. Great things may be coming, but they take time to get here.Which is unfortunate.I'm currently working on three major projects right now... all of them awwwh-summm! But when can I tell you about them? That's totally unknown because, well, it's going to take time. And my wife won't let me work much over 40 hours a week, so I can't exactly powerhouse through these things either.And I want to get them right. That slows things down too.But there is some really cool stuff in the works.I just hope I don't have to wait until 2012 to show them to you. <smi

Why People Hate Sonlight
One of my bloggy friends mentioned googling hate sonlight. And I thought, 'Hmm... I should write a blog post about the things that make Sonlight horrible so when people search for it, they hit my blog!' <Bwahahaha ha!>Of course, those who have swung by my blog searching for "sonlight curriculum bad" only stuck around for 40 seconds.So, please, before you close this tab, here are 27 Reasons NOT to Buy from Sonlight. The article contains a list of 27 things that make Sonlight a bad choice for your family. If you're looking for rea

Silence and Spin
Last night one of my friends mentioned that the director of Planned Parenthood had resigned and was now working for the Coalition for Life."Whoa! That's crazy," I said.And a little misleading.Turns out that it was a director of an abortion clinic in Texas.Still... it's interesting. To me, at least.First: Cool "win" for pro-lifers. So why haven't I seen this on the blog

Education sans Academics
So much learning takes place outside of the academic setting. Here's one example that we got to participate in yesterday:Tower BuildingMotor skills, physics, color and shape recognition, socializing... naturally with just a bucket of blocks.

Learning to Listen
When the girls first got here a few weeks ago, they weren't particularly interested in listening to books. When offered, they politely declined. They did, however, beg for the same story to be read to them again when it was bedtime. I suspect, however, that their motivation had more to do with the alternative than to the enjoyment of a story.I have often read comments from parents who say that their children simply don't like to listen to stories. Several families have shared that Sonlight simply didn't work for them because their kids didn't want to listen to the books. In fact, that sometimes lasted for a year or more.But eventually their children came around. List