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Latest blog posts from The Thinking Mother

Stephen Meader Books Back in Print
The other day my children’s experiential science/nature teacher for a homeschooled-children's class recommended the books by Stephen Meader to me, for my sons to read. This teacher was homeschooled his entire life and said that Meader’s books ‘changed his life’ and sparked his interest in... Read more...
Published 10 hours ago

Thoughts on the Two Homeschooling Topic PostSecrets
This week's Postscret blog post has two homeschooling secrets. This is the first time that I have ever seen homeschooling as a topic on PostSecret in the couple of years that I have been viewing the site.PostSecret only shows these posts for one week, from Sunday to Saturday at midnight, and then... Read more...
Published a day ago

Yippee!
This is my first all-finished, ready to use knitted project I made for ME!I did a tiny bit of work on Thursday night before bed, continued Friday night before bed, and finished it this morning.It is a super soft blend of 50% wool, 20% silk and 30% angora (Noro Kochoran colorway 31 dye lot D2,... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

David Macaulay Has a New Book!
A local homeschooler mentioned on a homeschool chat list last month, that David Macaulay had a new book coming out, “The Way We Work”, about the human body. (If you don’t know of this author and his wonderful books yet you must investigate them!)This new book was released 10/03/08.It is in... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Friend's Thoughts on Dangers of Promoting Lots of Fun in Learning
A friend read my blog post in which I listed Our Family's Homeschooling Aims and she emailed me with these thoughts.Before I share it I will say that after this email we discussed my post and I feel that what I was saying about fun in learning was interpreted by her was different than I intended.... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Molasses Cookies
While visiting my grandmother in Maine we sampled a molasses cookie at a bakery. My older son wanted to make a soft molasses cookie with a rounded top, from scratch, when we got home. I went in search of a recipe on the Internet and found and tried this one.This cookie was not soft and rounded at... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival #84 Has Been Published
The Make It From Scratch Blog Carnival #84 was published today at Make It From Scratch. Check it out and get inspired to make something from scratch.Consider submitting to this blog carnival if you make things from scratch. It can be anything from cooking and baking to sewing and crafts.copyright... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Dad Said It Started With Playstation
I recently watched an episode of Dr. Phil which had been recorded by my TiVo. The original air date was August 29, 2008 and the show was titled “Internet Dramas”. When I watch Dr. Phil’s show, I hope to learn something useful that I might apply to my own life. I sometimes learn things that... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Carnival of Homeschooling Week 145 Has Been Published
The Carnival of Homeschooling #145 was published today by Susan at Corn and Oil.I have an entry in this blog carnival. This Carnival provides a lot of homeschool-related reading. Take a look!If you have a blog or a website and write about homeschooling I encourage you to consider submitting an... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Internet Connections
This article from The Wall Street Journal made me laugh. I'm not posting it for political reasons! It is amazing and strange how connections can be made over the Internet and how some people choose to spend their time.In Sign of the Times, Global Village Gathers to Watch a Sign Viewers Monitor a... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Limits on Screen Time
It was May 2007 when I finally allowed my kids to begin watching Disney channel, the tween type shows (Suite Life, etc.). That morphed into watching some of the Nick shows along the same lines (Drake and Josh). I noted soon thereafter that new slang terms were in my boy's language. Sigh. You... Read more...
Published a week ago

Interesting Article on Gowns for Certain Sized Women
Here is an interesting article from The Wall Street Journal, published on August 21, 2008. Some of the things in this article are absolutely ridiculous.Article Title: Dressing Women of a Certain SizeA few things I’ll point out are:A size 8 model is now considered to be ‘plus sized’!!Some... Read more...
Published a week ago