If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have a special place in my heart for Big Lots. I furnished my first home with stuff mostly from Big Lots. In recent years though I have stopped going so I don’t get sucked into buying the [...]

I just recently heard about the Rock Your School program featuring Kimberly-Clark. While I think it is overall a travesty that our schools are not in better financial shape I do think it is awesome that people are being encouraged to try and make their schools better and that private groups are lending a hand. [...]

I joined an online unschooling group recently and foolishly I did not read the group’s mission statement. It was actually a group of “radical unschoolers”.  I think I have talked about them here before and while I think they have a lot of valuable lessons they can teach about living with compassion and peace, sometimes [...]

I think by now everyone has heard of the popular Baby Einstein series of DVDs for young children. Some swear that it helps to “smarten” of their babies and some groups say they do the opposite.
Well, I had a chance to review one recently and I have to say that I kind of like them. [...]

I think many people would be surprised how many homeschooling and unschooling blogs I read…especially since I don’t homeschool. But I do think about schooling and education quite a bit and I like to read about how other families are handling it.
One of the major reasons that I don’t homeschool is because my kids want to [...]

I recently got to test out the JumpStart World First Grade software with my first grader. I was really looking forward to it because this would be his first foray into video gaming (his epilepsy was a concern) and it would be an educational experience. When the package came in the mail with its vibrant colors [...]