Sara
@teachermother1
mid-south homeschooling mother of six. oikopoet.
Reading Ruskin finally. Going to start telling people we are not "classical" but Gothic homeschoolers.
Something I don't like: a middle-aged mother gets her act together and attributes it to a sudden case of self-discipline, not her youngest child turning four or getting enough sleep or the gradual accumulation of experience finally flowering in phronesis.
If I were ever to write a parenting book, I would call it The Toolbox, and it would just be a list of things you could try and types of kids and situations they might be helpful for.
Bleak
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
It's happening
It would be great if, on the next go round, we were to pick out the access children have to the adult world in traditional societies. Barbara Rogoff's work, mentioned in this article, is super fascinating along these lines. …observingandpitchingin.sites.ucsc.edu
Parenting hack: teach your 10yo to make chocolate pudding then use that pudding to motivate the rest of the kids to clean the house.
Re: the is parenting hard-in-a-bad-way discourse, one of my oldest, dearest friends has an art installation soon exactly all about hard work, joy, and motherhood. If you are in or near Pittsburgh, you should absolutely go!
Seared in my brain is the guy on here whose mind was blown when ChatGPT found him a shoe store on the second floor of the mall he was in. I can only assume it was his first time in a mall, so he didn't know about store directories.
I color-coded the kids bath towels, and that has been a huge success, so now I'm going to do the school supplies, and maybe people will be able to locate a ruler when they need one for a change.