Archive > May 2009
Journalling and writing
Last year, dd8 was ardent in scribbling in her journal. I was agog and delighted that she had caught the writing bug. I was also relieved that I wouldn’t have to arduously concoct ways and means to motivate her to write. She was all set, thought I, and I could lean back and relax. Sigh. [...]
Really short musings about benchmarks and homeschooling
The discussion about the Standards movement in the United States is pretty err…standard now. As parent who does not live in the United States, I shouldn’t have to worry about that kind of an issue. But in this (cliche) global village, it doesn’t take too long for issues as such to circulate to our end [...]