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Math, Math, Math... and yet again... MORE MATH! I'm so awful at math, but I'm homeschooling my seven year old. She's been homeschooled since pre-school. She had a brief stay at a public school this year after we moved back to Arkansas from Portland, Oregon. It didn't quite go so well. So I pulled her out at the last semester of first grade. At the end of this summer she'll be going into...

My daughter is full of surprises!Christmas 2006: Her gift to me was a grandchild. Mind you, it wasn't something I asked for or wanted from my 16-year-old but she gave it to me anyway.Christmas 2007: Her gift to me was an ATTITUDE. She was still upset over the fact that I was upset overher decision to keep her baby. I tried desperately to push adoption as the best alternative. She couldn't see that...

This week, many baby boomer parents, like me, have been going through the experience of sending their children off to college for the first time. We are becoming something called “empty nesters.” I would like to say helping my daughter enroll into college for the first time was a wonderful and teary-eyed experience---but it wasn’t. My greatest disappointment is the fact that...

This may not sound scientific but it is a good question. Do you wake up to the loud peeping of an annoying alarm clock, or your favoriet music, or your dog licking your hand? How you rest may be tied to it. If you know that as soon as you relax and fall asleep you are going to be awoken by something that is going to annoy you then you will not let your body relax enough to get the sleep you...

A recent post by BabyBoomerBev about teen pregnancy started me thinking. In her post, Bev recounts the experience she and her teenage daughter had when her daughter became pregnant, in stark contrast to the experiences of Governer Palin and her pregnant teenage daughter. The main point of Bev's story was about the way a rich, powerful, white family was received and supported by the community as...