Continued from July 15:
For the first few months we mostly played games with our new computer. It came with classic standards like Ladder, Aliens, and a version of Pac-Man, and the whole family enjoyed these newfangled electronic diversions. I did some bookkeeping and letter writing on it, and the boys explored the drawing program. Then [...]
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Continued from July 13:
By the time school opened John and Jim had made friends with the neighbor children, several of whom were about their own age. The boys decided that since everyone else from our little valley was going off to school in town, they’d like to try it too. So one brisk fall morning [...]
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Continued from July 12:
Long before I had children of my own I was telling people that mine weren’t ever going to school. People would smile condescendingly and let me explain why, and then they’d explain in return why not sending my someday-kids to school would be a very bad idea. Most experienced homeschoolers are familiar [...]
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I was pretty little the first time I remember skipping school. I think it was the second grade, in the small town of Healdsburg, California, about 75 miles north of San Francisco. Every morning I walked about a mile to the Fitch Street Elementary School with my cousin Barbara – we’d skip along and sing [...]
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