I meant to mention in last night's post that one reason I found Kevin's essay so exciting was that Serenity has been responding well to the unschooling concept. We have mostly been leaving it up to her what she does and she has begun, on her own, seeking instruction from us in reading, math and other subjects. It is almost all done on the fly and without too much "schoolish" stuff involved, not sitting at at desk and "studying" much :-) The other day she requested that we return to working on the Hooked on Phonics program that we had been using at first. We stopped using it when she didn't want to work on it any more. She has been figuring out reading on her own quite a bit and has realized it would be easier if she knew more about it. Cool :-)
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
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