We’ve been delving into more formal math lately. I’ve purchased and just received a set of connecting cuisenaire rods, the first two workbooks in the Singapore Math Earlybird Math series, and the first two workbooks (Red and Orange) of the Miquon math program. BTW, M just turned 4.
All this buying of math curricula seems almost like it is going against the direction we are heading in, homeschooling-wise. The more reading and thinking I am doing, the more we are heading in the unschooling direction. But at …

Even though we are in the very early stages of homeschooling (M is almost 4, J is almost 18 months), I think it is a useful personal exercise to do some writing about why I am choosing this pathway. I’m sure my reasons and feelings will change as we go along, and I am sure Arp has a different set of reasons that partially overlap mine. But anyway, …

I’ve been reading some of the Little House On The Prairie series to M lately, and we are both loving it. We finished On the Banks of Plum Creek a few weeks ago, and now we are working on By the Shores of Silver Lake. I skipped the first book (…Big Woods) mostly because I had read it before several times, and I also skipped Farmer Boy …

So for the last year or so, I’ve been reading everything and anything that our library system has about homeschooling. Up until about a month ago I wasn’t ready to make a commitment. But I’m finally there now, and we are ready to homeschool! Of course, when you think about it, we’ve been homeschooling all along. It’s not like we don’t start teaching our children from the moment they are born. But now …