Last night in Family Home Evening, my husband and I introduced the concept of The Bean Counter Game as found in Oliver and Rachel DeMille’s Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning. Note: In the book, the official name of the 5th ingredient is The Bean-Counter Game. Since yesterday was Labor Day, we spent the day … Read more
Today, on facebook, the newsfeed was covered with pictures of kids donning new backpacks and their brand new clothes. It’s the first day of school for many children in my area.As usual, we’re having a great day exploring our interests. Each of our kids started off by eating breakfast, then working on their “to do … Read more
Does your family need to change the way it does chores? Mine did. When I applied my new method, and gave it a couple weeks, the results were amazing. The Back Story Last time I posted about chore charts, I had a weekly spreadsheet idea that worked well for our family at the time. Sometimes, … Read more
We were so used to meeting deadlines as well as goals set by others when we were enrolled in cyberschools. Now that we’ve decided to follow the Thomas Jefferson Education, we decided to “detox.” We spent at least 2 months detoxing, starting in December 2012. How did we detox? Here are some of the things … Read more