PARENTING FREEDOM

attachment parenting, homeschooling, gentle discipline

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    Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 11:25 pm

    Wow… The stories a person’s iTunes music playlist tells… When a lifetime of clues and hints and flashing lights aren’t enough, you sometimes need to hit a brick wall – or visit hell.

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    “Children ought to be led to honorable practices
    by means of encouragement and reasoning,
    and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.”
    Plutarch, circa 46-120 A.D., Ancient Greece.

    • April Snow

    | April 13, 2008

    We woke up this morning to this:

    Edited to add:
    And after a walk at the park, we learned that Nana’s tulips were up – behind a melting mountain of snow.

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    Wii Wii Wii All the Way Home

    | April 13, 2008

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    Another Homeschool Order

    | April 13, 2008

    I just ordered The Institutes of Christian Religion, Part I and II for N14′s grade ten theology course next year.

    http://www.covenanthome.com/products/444

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    Ordering More Homeschool Materials

    | April 11, 2008

    This is all I am ordering from ABeka for next year. We use some other ABeka materials, but they are non-consumable. Remember, ABeka has free online shipping (over $50) for the month of April.

    K4
    54437 ABC-123 $11.50
    26506 Readiness Skills K4 $8.75
    26476 ABC Writing Tablet K4 Cursive $9.45
    60089 ABC Writing Tablet Manuscript $9.45
    63339 K4 Bible Activity Book $9.45

    Grade 2
    95842 Letters and Sounds 2 $12.75
    95656 Language 2 $12.75
    95672 Writing with Phonics 2 Cursive $12.75

    Grade 5
    65013 Language B $13.50
    59692 Read and Think 5 Skill Sheets $6.75

    Grade 9
    76228 Grammar and Composition IV $14.25

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    Telling the Truth

    | April 10, 2008

    Genocide Awareness Project Displays Aborted Baby Pictures at University of Toronto
    http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08040909.html

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    What Happened to Freedom of Speech in Canada?

    | April 9, 2008

    The Canadian conservative blogosphere is under attack
    http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/05/the-canadian-conservative-blogosphere-is-under-attack/

    Free speech fund-raiser: The Canadian conservative blogosphere under attack
    http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/09/free-speech-fund-raiser-the-canadian-conservative-blogosphere-under-attack/

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    Killing the Girls

    | April 9, 2008

    Choosing to eliminate unwanted daughters
    http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/04/06/choosing_to_eliminate_unwanted_daughters/

    “How exactly are American women empowered when abortion is deployed to prevent the existence of American girls?”

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    Babies

    | April 9, 2008

    “Walter said to me the other day, very thoughtful-like, ‘Susan,’ he said, ‘are babies very expensive?’ I was a bit dumbfounded, Mrs. Dr. dear, but I kept my head. ‘Some folks think they are luxuries,’ I said, ‘but at Ingleside we think they are necessities.’”
    Anne of Ingleside, Chapter III

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    Where the Red Fern Grows, Our Tears Flow

    | April 8, 2008

    Do you remember watching Anne of Green Gables The Sequel, where Anne was reading to her class of girls, and they were all sitting there sobbing and then left the room crying?

    I was reminded of that scene this morning in our homeschool when I read the last few chapters of Where the Red Fern Grows aloud to C6 and B9.

    Looking at this book in relation to my “issues”, it mentioned a few instances of the boy being whipped or switched by his mother, although it obviously didn’t change his behaviour (which reminds me of the Israelites). These quotes stood out:

    “I wasn’t scared of him [his father], for he never whipped me. He was always kind and gentle.”

    “I could scold them [his dogs] a little, but I could no more have whipped one of them than I could have kissed a girl. After all, a boy just doesn’t whip his dogs.”

    I also found the recurring themes of answered prayer and predestination to be interesting.

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    Threat to Homeschooling

    | April 8, 2008

    I think the biggest threat to homeschooling is when homeschooling gets confused with “religious” parenting practices, specifically beating children. That happened in the California case recently and seemingly in almost every case the HSLDA defends. It is also mentioned in this case in Sweden.

    Christian movement’s home schooling ‘unacceptable’
    http://www.thelocal.se/10982/20080408/

    In Sweden, it does appear that the state expects to have complete control of religious indoctrination simply by having the children present in the government schools. This is a reminder to North American parents who send their children to public schools. The government knows that it only needs those few hours each school day to indoctrinate children into secular humanism.

    If the authorities were really serious about the safety of children, then they wouldn’t focus on the homeschooling element, but rather the fact that the children are in the home at all. In cases where the children really are doing poorly as a result of homeschooling, I suspect that “homeschooling” is only a secondary issue to what is really going on, therefore, it is not the “right to homeschool” that should be threatened.

    I find it disturbing to hear fundamentalists cry “persecution” because their “right” to beat their children is questioned.

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