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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog

All Praise the Kids?

Interesting story in the NY Magazine this weekend about how praising kids harms and sometimes helps them. Much of the research about...

Summer Camp and Peer Socialization

While I’m pleased as punch that he handled himself well with other kids, I am not nearly so pleased with how quickly and (to me)...

My potty training baby

My daughter Sophia has decided to imitate her big sister and start using the toilet. I’d say she’s getting there about 60% of the time...

Gifted in Public

My kids and I took a little trip today to a local cave. It’s a sight seeing sort of place with some cool geology and stalactites and...

Shoes are evil!

Well, it turns out that science is siding with me and my barefoot ways. There’s a long article in New Yorker Magazine called “You Walk...

What you do with naughty children . . .

Sorry for the light blogging. I just finished writing an article for something else, my kids have been extra clingy and I’m a bit brain...

Our House is a Very, Very, Very Fine House

I was helping my 3 year old do puzzles downstairs while my 22 month old, Sophia was upstairs in my room watching TV. I went to check on...

What’s dumber than a gorilla with a bunch of bananas?

suspended 11 students for taking part in a senior prank where a kid dressed like a gorilla chased 10 classmates dressed like bananas...

Someone should notify the authorities!

zero tolerance” policy and label her as a sexual harasser post haste. Future colleges and employers have a right to know what kind of...

There are things I don’t understand

I know that my perspective is different because I do homeschool and it’s for reasons far less pressing than protecting my kids from...

Michaela Rose

She will regularly come up to me and say, “I’m beautiful, Mommy.” Of course you are sweetheart. It’s so funny, I’m quite certain those...

Spilled Kool-aid and Montessori Education

Many moons back, we had our oldest son, and for one year, our younger son enrolled in Montessori schools. When I began homeschooling,...

There are elves in the fire

I got to do something today which I had once planned on spending much of my life doing, but never really got the chance to do after...

You know you’ve achieved full "Momhood" when . . .

– You go to the bathroom while holding a baby (bonus points if you were breastfeeding at the time). – You find yourself saying odd...