Posts by Needle in the Hay

ETA: Oops, I meant to quote GuildJenn's post about the Montessori forum and how sometimes disrespectful threads about Montessori schools and students are posted there.   That happens in the unschooling forum too. Sometimes...

  Quote: Originally Posted by 4evermom  Such concern about schooling in the Unschool Support Forum.  We don't do any "schooling."      Huh, and they seemed so...

My son loves looking for more lego figures, sets and accessories to buy--he is more into warriors, knights, vikings, etc, but he has had a few Star Wars sets too. Currently he enjoys going on toywiz .com and editing his cart and...

I love homeschooling my "enfant unique" (I think that sounds nicer than only child! lol). We went on a homeschooling fieldtrip the other day and three of us just had the one. We tend to think of homeschoolers as big families, but there...

My guess is that people will think the school thing is stranger than the breastfeeding. I never got any comments while nursing my son--my MIL just was indirectly a little weird about it, which I ignored--but people started asking about...

Oops. Reading your post again I see you did not say you homeschool. I guess I just assumed you did as this is the homeschooling forum and I do know French homeschoolers so it wouldn't strike me as odd at all. I also know French public...

Hi Gabrielle, How do you like home schooling in the south of France? We lived in les Bouches-du-Rhône for 8 years but moved away to another part of France when DS was 3 so we didn't have much experience homeschooling there. Have...

Quote:Originally Posted by ~Boudicca~  The above mentioned freedom and flexibility.  There are so many things that fall under those 2 things.    There really are. That's why they are my two main reasons--it keeps it short. I could spend...

Freedom and flexibility are the biggest reasons. We can go visit my family in the U.S. and stay many weeks. We don't have bedtime battles or hectic mornings. We have lots of time to relax at home as well as go do things. I went to...

Quote:Originally Posted by calynde AHmm. In the version of jack and the beanstalk that we have, jack is "stealing" back things that the mean giant stole from jack's father long ago, thereby restoring his family fortune. Just goes to...