This afternoon Graham was all out of sorts. Finally, as I was helping him with his socks, he started talking to me very slowly and carefully. This was big stuff, whatever it was. “Last night… Granny. Told. Me. That she. Is getting on a big airplane. And going to. Going to go. Far away.”
“Yeah, that’s [...]
Graham has a new thing. We don’t know where it came from.
He starts off counting in a normal voice. “One, two, three, four!” his voice goes up in pitch with every number. “Five! Six!” By now it’s a painful squeal. “Sevvin! Eight!”
At this point, we can barely hear him but can just make out [...]
…which is not to say that I am preemptively defensive or bitter or anything like it. Just as I was surfing for useful information, I keep coming across cute little answers for common questions. They’re all utterly adorable and utterly safe to forward to your grandma, and after reading a bunch of them I was [...]
Q:
Why are you homeschooling?
A:
Well, we thought a lot about it before deciding that — hey! OMG! Did you see that car? That was weird. Woah. What?
Q:
Wow. Homeschooling. I could never do it with my kids.
A:
I know. God, I couldn’t homeschool your kids either.
Q:
“How do you keep from getting overwhelmed and frustrated?”
A:
Well, I get up pretty [...]
I think a lot about homeschooling. At first we sort of waved it away as my mid-30s angst left over from my suburbanite trauma of being bored at school a lot when I was a kid. But I’ve toured the school Nicolaus would go to and really, it’s fine. I don’t worry that he will [...]