Posts by beckington

Oh and I thought this blog post on screen time was pretty interesting:   http://www.project-based-homeschooling.com/camp-creek-blog/sliver-or-how-stop-fighting-about-screen-time   Shutting up now... :)

Oh, just thought of a funny story from the other day...   I was out with the kids and a friend of my oldest. My kids were off playing and friend and I were having a snack, and I asked him what was his favourite thing to do at...

We don't formally limit it, as in have rules about x number of hours per day or after a certain time only. Instead we talk about making sure any one thing in our lives doesn't fill up so much of our time we don't have time for other...

We are in a massive decluttering/organizing mood here at the moment! It doesn't happen often, heh, so gotta take advantage of it when it does. :)   I'm curious how you all organize kid-related stuff in your house... do your...

Thanks everyone! I'll get the non-connecting ones, and wood if I can! :)

Title kind of says it all. I'm going to buy some cuisenaire rods and wondering if I should get the type that connects or not. What are the pros and cons?   Thanks!

Oh, and we don't own a car so aren't out in Waverly very much (though I have a sister in Fall River), but if you are ever in the city and want to get together just let me know! :)

Hi and welcome to Halifax/Waverly! I live in west end Halifax and have two boys - almost 9 and almost 2. Are you on Facebook? There's a few FB groups for Halifax or NS homeschoolers. Not unschooling specific, but unschoolers on there...

I don't think it's the game's fault since it's happened at some point (or rather, many points) with every wii game he's played so far! ;) At the moment he's playing Kirby's Return to Dreamland.   He didn't play the wii after...

Ugh.   My 8yo LOVES the wii. We got it for Christmas. We've never really imposed limits on screen time and have definitely gone through times when screen exposure was really, really high, but eventually they'd balance out with...