Here's this week's photo from the GAP. It's not my favorite. This one is. But now that Zehavi has convinced me that we should go to the GAP each week after cello, I decided that I'll document the new outfits. Maybe GAP will sponsor the blog or something. I should email them. (more…)

I love the Onion so much. A recent article headline is Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation, and there's an accompanying photo of a dad fawning over his Talking Heads album.  (more…)

So much of the discussion of school comes down to video games. Especially for boys. And here's why: in most cases, if you tell boys they can spend their time doing whatever they want, and they can learn whatever is interesting to them, they will learn a lot about video games. (more…)

The preconceived notions I had about homeschooling parents created one of the biggest barriers to me decided to homeschool. I thought I knew what homeschooling parents were like. And I was certain I was not like them. (more…)

Public spending on high school athletics has grown extreme, exemplified by a public school in Allen, Texas that built a $60 million football stadium in 2011. Equipped with a three-dimensional scoreboard and an 18,000 seating capacity, this is not the most expensive in Texas, according to The Center for Education Policy and Development.  (more…)

You know what really helped me to see my world with a different lens? Reading about female genital mutilation.

It's a big problem in some communities. girls have their clitoris removed each year. It's extremely painful, of course, but also dangerous—hundreds of  girls die each year from infections. And those who survive endure intense pain during sex for the rest of their lives. (more…)

School separates exercise into something different from our main job. When we started homeschooling, one of the biggest shifts I had to make in my own thinking is that exercise is not school. I had to teach myself, every time my kids were playing, that learning is not divided between academics and gym, learning is both parts. (more…)

I told my family about how my son is passionate about clothes and he runs around Chicago buying socks, and shoes and changing his outfits between cello and piano lessons.

I told them about how he uses the Internet to track style trends and then find stores that will sell the stuff he wants. (more…)

I confess that I saved all my books from when I was a young girl. One of the common traits of girls with Asperger's is that they read fiction at an insane rate. The only person I know who has read as many young adult novels as I have, in fact, is my friend Melissa, who also has Aspergers. (more…)

It's scary to think that if you don't send your kids to a classroom, there won't be thirty other kids telling your kid all about what's available in the world. It's scary to think it's your responsibility now. But the truth is, it's not that big of a responsibility. (more…)