Breathing Space

I finally got around to reading " No Drama Discipline " based on a recommendation of a friend. I am reading the book and nodding m...

Being a baalat teshuva and not attending day school makes me nervous about my Judaic knowledge. I am even more jittery when it comes to educ...

Some days I wonder: why do we homeschool? Wouldn't they all be better off in their respective classrooms, with peers and trained teacher...

We went on a nature hike today with a bunch of other homeschoolers. I drove there with a friend and her son. In the car, we were talking abo...

See these angles, studiously working together each in their workbook? No, this is not a posed photo, but it lasted a total of four minutes. ...

I drag my kids everywhere. I have no choice: I do not have babysitter/housekeeper/au pair/neighbor whom I can drop the kids off with while I...

It takes a village to raise a child. In general, nobody can do it alone. One needs a support system of some kind, a network of grown-ups w...

A few days ago our local listserve had a request for people to help with the eruv mailing. It was for stuffing and stamping envelopes. I fig...

This past Sunday was Yom HaShoa. No, I did not do any special activity with the kids, in fact, I am still struggling how to weave Holocaust ...

This past Shabbos, R. Chanoch Teller was a guest speaker in our shul. He gave a class about being a mentch (an admirable person). He started...

I think the real reason people are afraid to homeschool is that all influences in child's life become family-centered. You cannot blame ...