by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 9, 2010 | Comedy, Satire, World Views
After all, when in doubt, blame an asteroid. No other disaster will do. When I was a child I once acquired a mainstream “educational” coloring book about dinosaurs. The last page in the book featured two parrots with the caption, “This is what...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 16, 2009 | Latitude 821, Politics, World Views
How often have you looked at someone who passionately disagrees with everything you stand for and thought, “just look at the facts! You can’t argue with facts, if these people would just look at the truth they would have to change their minds!”? I’m discovering that...
by Amanda Read Sheik | May 30, 2007 | Journal, World Views
Some one said recently that they think “Homeschools are the monasteries of the new dark ages”. Kevin Swanson mentioned it in his lecture on Multi-generational Homeschooling. Ah, certainly that is a powerful ambition. We are here to guard and treasure the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 7, 2006 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal, World Views
All of us homeschoolers have something “unique” about our method of education, to be sure. In the past I have seriously questioned how successful I really am in my “school” work, but that was probably because I am undoubtedly a perfectionist....