Posted in Education, Homeschool, Politics on Sep 13th, 2009 Discussion »
We have just begun our 16 year of homeschooling. In Utah and other high LDS population areas, seminary is taught in a building adjacent to the public schools on a released time basis, mostly by full-time church employees. When my children begin taking seminary in 9th grade, I encourage them to take a class […]
Posted in Education, Self-Improvement on Apr 21st, 2009 Discussion »
What do Mormon Mommas read? According to Amazon, the readers of this blog have purchased the following more than any other books. Are you surprised by any of the winners?
Posted in Education, Culture on Jan 6th, 2009 Discussion »
Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1958: Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008: School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Education, Politics, Holidays on Nov 26th, 2008 Discussion »
I spent the day with my preschool class gearing them up for the Thanksgiving holiday. I’m sure you can imagine the makings of our day. We started out in circle time as I read them the story of “The First Thanksgiving”. Afterwards, we went to the tables, spread with crayons, contruction paper, tape, […]
Posted in Education on Oct 6th, 2008 Discussion »
I have a theory. My theory is that Republicans are really only fiscally conservative until they start to see a personal benefit in being fiscally liberal. “Small government! Lower taxes!” they scream. Oh, until big government and higher taxes will personally line their pockets.
What hypocrisy.
Posted in Homeschool on Feb 23rd, 2008 Discussion »
Anna Schwab, a girl from Orcutt, California, aced the SAT in December, with a 12 on her SAT essay.
Not bad. Did I mention, she is 13 years old?
Posted in The Learning Curve, Education, Homeschool, Mathematics on Feb 5th, 2008 Discussion »
Recently I was looking through a second or third grade math text and was pretty amazed to find that it contained about four months worth of calculator lessons. Well, they called it something cooler than that but it was basically lessons on “how to operate a calculator.” So really, how many seven-year-olds need four months […]
Posted in The Learning Curve, Education, Character, Self-Improvement, Faith on Jan 13th, 2008 Discussion »
Years ago, my sister in law had a medical emergency. She was bleeding profusely, but she still had the presence of mind to tell her husband her blood type. She managed to say, “B positive.” Her husband, worried as he was,
Posted in Education, Sports on Jan 4th, 2008 Discussion »
Recently I took a survey sponsored by the Cougar Club. The last question was:
What is your main reason for not donating to BYU Athletics?
Here’s my response:
Posted in Education, Finances on Oct 29th, 2007 Discussion »
$18,900—that is how much debt awaits the typical college undergraduate (National Student Loan Survey, Nellie Mae, 2002). In the last ten years, student debt has risen 66%, forcing students to attend their second, third, or fourth-choice school, or to forgo higher education altogether. Some students work multiple jobs just to pay tuition, not to mention […]
