Things are quiet here…
No rants to make, no gripes, no worries.. could sleep a bit more but it is just a question of going to bed earlier. Khéna pretty much sleeps through the night and goes 5-6 hours without nursing… so he is not at all the cause for our lack of sleep…
It is great having Simon home.. he just got the final amounts that we will be getting during his leave and we won’t have a problem…. so until June we are both Stay at home Parents… It makes having three kids a lot easier…
Khéna sleeps a lot and doesn’t like to be out and about too much… he sleeps well in the wrap but only if we are walking a lot… otherwise he would rather be laying on me on the lazyboy.. he doesn’t want to sleep in the Amby either during the day… but in the evening, after the kids are asleep and he has been pottied, I can put him down in there and be get some stuff done…
Though I am in front of the computer most if the day I am limited to one hand because of the way things are set up.. so I don’t do much else but surf, read and I have been updating my website… then I am going to give my blog a fresh look I think…
I have been thinking about homeschooling more and unschooling.. I really need to deschool myself more.. I will be writing a post on some thoughts and fears that I may have….
On another note… Yesterday I bought my first Babyhawk Mei Tai, well really my first MT all together. I am so excited! I decided to go all out and and get it custom made.. I think it is going to look great!!! I can’t Wait to get it!!!!
So here are a few new pics of the boys…
My friend Gen made this hat.. Colin LOVES it!
I didn’t change the colour of Xavier’s eyes… just made the rest B&W
I think it’s great that you’re looking into homeschooling/unschooling. I’ve mentioned the possibilty of us doing it to friends (I’m not a parent yet, but am in the process of adopting) and wow, everyone is so brainwashed to think school is the only way to go, and my friends are fairly left of centre, more so usually than I am! But, you’ve already self-identified as a black sheep so I’m sure you’re up for it. 😉
For me, I really like freedom in life and don’t institutionalize well, and I hated school, and I genuinely believe that for most people it’s not the best way to learn (unpleasant, ploddingly slow, people esp. kids don’t learn best in herds), so it’s certainly in our list of possibilities too. I figure that most of the things I’ve actually learned in life (including the actual skills I use in my job) I taught myself or learned as I went, and most of school was just putting in time and hoop jumping.
Looking forward to reading more from you on this! Have you read any of the big tomes on it yet (Holt, Gatto)?
Good for you, we’re looking into that too. I know that I absolutely will not have my kids in regular school so it’s really just a matter of figuring out what type of things I’ll be doing at home.
Khena is gorgeous as ever, I can’t resist his cheeks. My little girl is still so very tiny so it’s a bit of a shock seeing your big boy sometimes. =)
It’s funny, I was so anti-homeschooling until I started reading into it:)If I did homeschool, I would probably do a child-led curriculum type… Kind of like Waldorf at home. I just gotta convince the hubby on that. It’s funny, my mother is a trained teacher and now she kind of regrets not homeschooling us (she thinks for a lot of kids traditional schooling doesn’t work at all). I felt a lot of time school was just full of busy work. I didn’t regret my higher education though (I loved University!).
My mother was so permissive with us when it came to school. If I didn”t feel like going for whatever reason she’d just ask me to write a note and she’d sign it.
Cheers and the pics are beautiful!
Ali
Thanks…
I actually have never intended my children to attend public school, Homeschooling has always been part of my plan. Though I am not compleltey anti school per say, I am against the way that kids are forced to learn in most public/private/school at home environments… So unshcooling has always been part of my plans also though I didn’t know it had a name until a few years ago…
What I have been thinking about lately though is how I need to deschool myself to no longer think in the “school” terms that I have been brainwashed into thinking…
Anyway… I’ll be writing a post about it soon…