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Parents are supposed to obsess over their firstborn's milestones, but I am obsessing over Fiona's. I suppose it's because with t...

Erin has fallen in love with the Sibelius Romance Op. 24 No. 9 . She heard it played by a fellow student during the summer. It's a signi...

Noah has been agitating for a while about wanting to learn to program games on the computer. I know enough about programming to know that pr...

The GRUBS held their 2nd annual Harvest Festival last weekend. It was a chance to celebrate another successful growing year, to have a feast...

True to character, Noah wanted a birthday celebration that was "family only". Fine. But he wanted to do something memorable too. S...

Fiona was the only one who wanted to come to the GRUBS garden with me this afternoon to do a bit of digging. I wanted to make some progress ...

Sophie started knitting this week. Almost a year ago she learned a basic knit stitch and was keen for a week or two, but never really develo...

Sometimes you know things but you just need a nudge. I know Noah has difficulty creating structure and consistency for himself. I know lose...

On the SuzukiChat List a year or so ago someone posted about nursing a toddler who was predisposed to hum Suzuki's "Allegro"...

Lately I've been thinking a bit about our family approach to the ownership of the "stuff" the kids have and how it plays out i...

Fiona's had an amazing week on violin and she knows it. Last week at about this time she was showing an interest in teaching herself som...

Why is most high school science so dry and uninteresting? Why do students lose interest in science? Why is science achievement in North Ame...

On Day 4 of the Suzuki Valhalla Institute, the pianos arrived at the school for the following week's piano summer school. They come on l...

Someone wrote on a message board about an acquaintance who was banning her newly-5yo from watching "little-kid TV" or playing ...

We just finished our main week of music summer school. I'm heavily involved organizationally and had all four of my kids enrolled in the...

I've been thinking about the relationship between influence and control for a while now. I have a feeling that this must be one of those...

Noah and I made this little motor the other day after he had impressed me by taking apart the dyno-generator flashlight that had broken, rep...

For many years in our homeschooling journey I tried to keep my eyes on the horizon ("I want my children to be happy, moral, confident a...

Sometime a week or two ago Fiona surpassed the 100-Twinkle mark. She is now a "Twinkler" rather than a "pre-Twinkler" an...

Three weeks ago I wrote about some progress I felt I was making with Noah at establishing a positive, optimistic outlook. By taking into ac...